Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452-1519)
Michael Servetus
Spanish physician and theologian
Michael Servetuswas 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).
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About the Michael Servetus
Michael Servetuswas 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 is renowned in the history of several of these fields, particularly medicine. His work on the circulation of blood and his observations on pulmonary circulation were particularly important. He participated in the Protestant Reformation, and later rejected the Trinity doctrine and mainstream Catholic Christology.
After being condemned by Catholic authorities in France, he fled to Calvinist Geneva where he was denounced by John Calvin himself and burned at the stake for heresy by order of the city’s governing council.
19 Quotes by Michael Servetus
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And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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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.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian
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God gave us the mind so that we can know him.
Michael ServetusSpanish physician and theologian