Out of the Flames: the Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

From: The Christian Century | Date: January 25, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

By Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. Broadway, 353 pp., $24.95.

MICHAEL SERVETUS'S Restitutio Christianismi is quite a book. One of the first attacks on the doctrine of the Trinity, it also described for the first time the circulation of the blood--and led to Servetus's being burned to death in Calvin's Geneva. Only three copies of the original edition survive. The Goldstones, authors of popular works on book collecting, tell the story of Servetus and of his book.

Servetus was a Spanish physician, scientist, theologian and any number of other things. Already a published ...

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