Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus, also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve, 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. 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. He is renowned in...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 September 1511
CountrySpain
Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
Truly, the custom amongst Hispanic women of piercing their lobes with a golden or silver ring to which they hang, most of the times, a precious stone.
I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.
If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.