Michael Servetus Humanist and Martyr

Michael Servetus--discoverer of pulmonary circulation and a heretic.

M Servetus or Miguel Serveto ( 1 5 0 9 o r 1 5 1 1 1 5 5 3 ) wa s a theologian, physician and Renaissance humanist. He was born in Villanueva in Argon, Spain. A prodigy and a polymath, h e wa s ve r s e d i n m a n y s c i e n c e s : mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, g e o g r a p h y , h u m a n a n a t o m y a n d pharmacology as well as jurisprudence, translation, poetry and scholarly st...

Hunted Heretic; The Life and Death of Michael Servetus 1511-1553

HUNTED HERETIC; THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MICHAEL SERVETUS 15111553. By Roland H. Bainton. Boston, Beacon Press, 1953. xii, 270 pp. $3.75. The Reverend Roland H. Bainton is the distinguished Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale University. For over twenty-five years Mr. Bainton has been studying about and publishing books on the four principal heretics of the Reformation who, as...

Michael Servetus and the Discovery of the Lesser Circulation *

I am grateful to the members of the Beaumont Medical Club for their kindness in inviting me to give the Carmalt Lecture on a historical theme. As a surgeon I could repeat what the French painter Ingres used to say to the people who praised him for his pictures: "I am not interested in painting; what I really like is to play the violin." My violin, that is, my source of relaxation and rest, is h...

The Book of Health

HUNTED HERETIC; THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MICHAEL SERVETUS 15111553. By Roland H. Bainton. Boston, Beacon Press, 1953. xii, 270 pp. $3.75. The Reverend Roland H. Bainton is the distinguished Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale University. For over twenty-five years Mr. Bainton has been studying about and publishing books on the four principal heretics of the Reformation who, as...

Learning in the context of very high dimensional data (Dagstuhl Seminar 11341)