This beautiful marble memorial tablet, unveiled in 1978, remembers the place in Folkestone (Church Street) were William Harvey was born on 1st April 1578. The inscription reads as follows: “NEAR THIS SPOT WAS BORN / ON 1ST APRIL 1578 / WILLIAM HARVEY / THE WORLD RENOWNED SCIENTIST / AND DISCOVERER OF / THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD / HIS FATHER AND MOTHER / ATTENDED THE NEARBY PARISH CHURCH / AND HIS FATHER WAS MAYOR OF FOLKESTONE / IN THE YEARS 1586, 1599, 1601 AND 1611 / +PIU’ ARDE PIU’ SPLENDE+”.
- Photos by Giuseppe Serena (September 2013)
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