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The spanish scientist and theologist of the Renaissance named MIGUEL SERVET (Villanueva de Sigena 1511- Genevra 1553) aka MICHAEL SERVETUS aka MICHELE SERVETO aka Revés or Michel de Villeneuve (1509 or 1511 1553). In this portrait with JOHN CALVIN, before the Council of Geneva, engraved illustration pubblished into the book by William Wileman (1849-1941)" John Calvin: His Life, His Teaching and His Influence", London: Robert Banks Son, c. 1900. The spanish scientist and theologist of the Renaissance named MIGUEL SERVET (1511- 1553) aka MICHAEL SERVETUS aka MICHELE SERVETO aka Revés or Michel de Villeneuve (1509 or 1511-1553). Illustration XIX century engraved of The Execution of Michael Servetus. Servetus was 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. He participated in the Protestant Reformation.

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