Post by Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Circulation and the seminal work of William Harvey, one of Gonville & Caius College’s most famous alumni, are celebrated in a new piece of public artwork installed at Cambridge South station, which is due to open later this month adjacent to Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth Hospitals, and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Network Rail and Great British Railways Anglia (GBR Anglia) on Monday unveiled ‘Together We’, by Turner prize nominee (2006) Mark Titchner. The concept of the work focuses on the circulation and coming ‘together’ of people, with its origins in circulatory systems both medical and in transport. This draws on Titchner’s research into Cambridge physician Harvey, who in 1628 revealed the hitherto secrets of blood circulation. Harvey discovered that blood is pumped around the body by the heart in a state of ceaseless motion. Harvey, born in 1578 and living through an extraordinary age of scientific revolution, studied at Caius before moving to the University of Padua to complete his medical studies. https://lnkd.in/e4djGm_D