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I don't buy it. The word "heart" is literally cognate to "core". This suggests a very old view that the heart is central.

• TheGeminon 3y ago
  According to Wiktionary in English that didn’t appear until the 14th century (although that is earlier than the article suggests) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heart https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heart
  • martinjacobd 3y ago
    meh the OED has this from early old English (albeit in the form of 'heortan') in the mid-tenth century from Bald's Leechbook.
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