Michael Servetus
by Collection Abecasis/science Photo Library
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Michael Servetus
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Collection Abecasis/science Photo Library
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Michael Servetus (1511-1553). 1869 illustration of the 16th Century Spanish physician Michael Servetus (Michel Servet). As a physician, Servetus was the first European to describe the function of the pulmonary circulation, though it was not widely known at the time as it was published in a theological work (titled 'Christianismi Restitutio') in 1553. However, his theological thoughts were ultimately condemned as heretical, and he was burnt at the stake near Geneva, Switzerland.
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