This biography for year 6 and P7, linking to the topic Animals including humans and Body system and cells, explains how the historical scientist Ibn an-Nafis discovered how the heart works before anyone else. In the Middle Ages, doctors didn’t have the machines that fill today’s hospitals so it was impossible to watch a working heart in action. In Europe, many people were suspicious of new ideas and experiments, but in the Arab world, some of the world’s first doctor-scientists were studying human anatomy. Ibn an-Nafis was one of these doctor-scientists. He became the chief doctor - not just in a hospital, but to the ruler of Egypt! He studied the body closely and wasn’t afraid to say when the textbooks got it wrong!
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