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6. Michaelis Villanovani in quendam medicum apologetics dis ceptatio pro astrologia (Paris, 1538; reprinted, Berlin, 188o) ; the medicus is Jean Tagault, who interrupted Servetus's lectures on astronomy, including meteorology.

7. Biblia Sacra ex Santis Pagini tralatione . . . recognita et scholiis illustrata, etc. (Lyons, Hugo a Porta, 1542, seq.), re markable for its theory of prophecy, explained in the preface and illustrated in the notes.

8. D'Artigny says Servetus fit les argumens to a Spanish version of the Summa of Aquinas ; this, and divers traites de grammaire from Latin into Spanish have not been identified.

9. Christianismi restitutio (1553; perfect copies in Vienna and Paris) ; a copy in Edinburgh university library is complete except that the missing first 16 pages are replaced by a transcript from the original draft, containing matter not in the print (this supple mentary ms. was reproduced by photography, 1909) ; a transcript of other portions of the draft is in the Bibl. Nat., Paris; partly reprinted (London, 1723) (copies in London and Paris); re printed (page for page) from the Vienna copy (Nuremberg, Rau, 179o); German version, by B. Spiess (Wiesbaden, 1892-95); the last section Apologia to Melanchthon, is given in the original Latin. The book is not strictly anonymous; the initials M.S.V. are given at the end; the name Seruetus on p. 199. The often cited description of the pulmonary circulation (which occurs in the 1546 draft) begins p. 169; it has escaped even Sigmond that Servetus had an idea of the composition of water and of air; the hint for his researches was the dual form of the Hebrew words for blood, water, etc. Two treatises, Desiderzus (ante 1542) and De trib-us impostoribus (1598) have been wrongly ascribed to Servetus. Most of his few remaining letters are printed by Mos heim ; his letter from Louvain was despatched in duplicate (to evade capture), but both were seized; one is in the Record Office (U. 140), the other in the British Museum (Cotton mss., Galba B. x.).

The literature relating to Servetus is very large ; a bibliography is in A. v. d. Linde, Michael Servet (1891) ; the following are among the important pieces. Calvin's Defensio orthodoxae fidei (in French, Declaration pour maintenir, etc., 1554), is the source of prevalent mis conceptions as to Servetus's opinions, and attitude on his trial. De la Roche's Historical Account in Mem. of Lit. (1711-12) (in French, Biblioth. Ang. Amsterdam, 1717) was followed by An Impartial His tory, etc., 1724 (said to be by Sir Benjamin or Nathaniel Hodges). All woerden's Historia, etc. (1728) (materials furnished by Mosheim) is

superseded by Mosheim's Anderweitiger Versuch (1748, with appendix, Neue Nachrichten, etc., 175o), reproducing the records of the Vienne examination (since lost) first printed by D'Artigny. Nouveaux Memoires d'hist., etc., vol. ii. (I749)• Chauffepie's valuable article, Nouv. Dict. historique, iv. (1756) (in English, by Rev. James Yair, 1771) makes no use of Mosheim's later researches. Trechsel's Die Prot. Antitrinitaires vor F. Socin, bk. i. (1839), uses all available material up to date. The investigations of H. Tollin (4o separate articles in various journals, 1874 to 1885) have thrown much light, mixed with some con jecture. The records of the Geneva trial, first published by De la Roche, reproduced in Rilliet's Relation etc. (1844), and elsewhere, are best given in vol. viii. (1870) of the Corpus reformatorum edition of Calvin's works; Roget's Hist. du peuple de Geneve, vol. iv. (1877), has a good account of both trials. The passage on the pulmonary circula tion, first noticed by W. Wotton, Reflections upon Anc. and Mod. Learning (1694), has given rise to a literature of its own; see, especially, Tollin, Die Entdeckung des Blutkreislaufs, etc. (1876) ; Huxley, in Fort nightly Rev. (Feb. 1878) ; Tollin, Kritische Bemerkungen fiber Harvey und seine Vorganger (1882). Other physiological speculations of Ser vetus are noted by G. Unnoticed Theories of Servetus (1826). The best study of Servetus as a theologian is Tollin's Lehrsystem M. Servets (3 vols., 2876-78) ; Piinyer's De M. Serveti doctrina (1876) is useful. From a Unitarian point of view, Servetus is treated by R. Wright, Apology (1807) ; W. H. Drummond (1848) ; R. Wallace, Anti trin. Biog. (185o) ; • J. S. Porter, Servetus and Calvin (1854). E. Saisset, Rev. des deux Mondes (1848), treats Servetus as a pantheist; he is followed by Menendez Pelayo, Los Heterodoxos espanoles (188o, vol. ii.), and by R. Willis, Servetus and Calvin (1877, cf. A. Gordon, Theol. Rev., April and July 1878). Of Servetus's personal character the best vindication is Tollin's Characterbild M. Servets (1876) ; see also A. Dide, M. Servet et Calvin (1907) ; W. Osler, Michael Servetus (N.Y., 1909) ; J. van der Erde, M. Servet (Amsterdam, 1909) ; A. Gordon, The Personality of M. Servetus (Iwo), and Servetus and the Spanish Inquisition (1925). His story has been dramatized by Max Ring, Die Genfer (1850), by Jose Echegaray, La Muerte en los Labios (188o), by Albert Hamann, Servet (1881), and by Prof. Shields, The Reformer of Geneva (1897). (A. Go.; X.)

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