Galileo had taught the monk Castell, who had taught Borelli, who had taught the anatomist Malpighi, who had taught Valsalva, who had taught Morgagni, who had taught him.
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In the beginning, the feeling might not have been unpleasant he could stay up all night playing cards or maybe read Morgagni's famous comparisons of the body to a machine, published just a few years before.
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Irregular heart-beats had been studied by Giovanni Morgagni of Bologna in the 18th century, and many subsequent scientists had added to the knowledge of heart disease by the time young Paul Zoll began studying medicine at Harvard in the 1930s.