Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
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Updated 2026-05-29
Spanish polymath who nailed pulmonary circulation in 1553 before anyone else, then got burned at the stake for his religious views. Theology, medicine, cartography, astronomy—he did it all, just not long enough to enjoy the recognition.
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Michael Servetus was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation, as discussed in Christianismi Restitutio (1553). He was a polymath versed in many sciences: mathematics, astronomy and meteorology, geography, human anatomy, medicine and pharmacology, as well as jurisprudence, translation, poetry, and the scholarly study of the Bible in its original languages.
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