Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger (published 1487)
“It is to be said that the soul is thought to reside in the centre of the heart, in which it communicates with all the members by an outpouring of life.”
- From The Malleus Maleficarum (Part II, Question I, Chapter IX) by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, translated by Montague Summers (Dover Publications, 1971).