The legacy of Michael Severtus.(Out of the Flames)(Book Review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: Heptonstall, Geoffrey | Copyright information

Out of the Flames. Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. Century. [pounds sterling]12.99. 240 pages. ISBN 0-7126-7698-8.

Michael Severtus is one of history's unacknowledged influences. Despite his major contribution to medical science, he died reviled, his name soon forgotten. Burnt, along with all known copies of his infamous book, by Calvin in Geneva, Servetus remained a subversive danger to orthodoxy. The authors of this book claim him, with some cause, as a progenitor of the...

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