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Servetus, Michael

Michael Servetus

29 September 1511 — 27 October 1553

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Servetus, Michael

Michael Servetus

29 September 1511 — 27 October 1553

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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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