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Michael Servetus

Spanish physician and theologian · Spain · Doctors · Lived 1511 to 1553 · aged 42

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He mapped pulmonary circulation centuries before it was textbook knowledge, then died screaming in Geneva - burned alive in 1553 for theological heresy, not medical discovery.

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  1. Poor people always lose in struggles.

    1535, A sentence from his first edition of Ptolemy's Geography (1535), Own words

  2. I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.

    Such considerations were reinforced when he attended the coronation of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement VII, and witnessed the, Own words

  3. In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity… We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.

    At the age of 20, he published On the Errors of the Trinity, a work that made him a principal target of the Inquisition., Own words

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About this person

Michael Servetus was a Spanish physician, theologian, and Renaissance polymath born in 1509 or 1511, versed in mathematics, astronomy, geography, anatomy, and biblical scholarship. He became the first European to correctly describe pulmonary circulation, publishing his findings in Christianismi Restitutio in 1553. He participated in the Protestant Reformation but broke with orthodoxy, rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity and mainstream Catholic Christology. After Catholic authorities in France condemned him for the Restitutio, he fled to Geneva, where John Calvin denounced him. The city's governing council ordered him burned at the stake for heresy on 27 October 1553.

Country
Spain
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1511 to 1553 · aged 42

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