Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.

Michael Servetus

16th-century Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist

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:…