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Dec. 9, 1807. Dear And Respected Sir, Ho...
alone , it unquestionably appears , that Servetus was as thoroughly acquainted with the Greek
language , as he was well versed in mathematics , geography , an * l ancient literature . It is true , in some passages of this edition the author seems to favour the Roman
Catholics ; but who dares pretend that the reformers purged themselves effectually and thoroughly of the leaven of popery , so that no traces of it could be discovered
by the most eagle-eyed inquirer ? In other places the editor seems to speak less favourably of Moses , though he calls him expressly in various passagesa godly man . The fertility of Canaan is questioned ,
though it is not clear whether the state ^ of that country in the times of Moses , or in a later age was intended . * But not to repeat here , that Servetus afterwards solemnly protested , " that his writings in
various parts had been interpolated J * it is a fact , that all the passages in Servetus' edition of Ptolem ^ eus' Tables , which were
laid to his charge at Geneva , were ? without exception , taken from the edition of Ptolemaeus , published at Strasbnrg , 1525 , by Jo . GTieninger and Jo . Koburger . Thus far , then * Servetus may be deemed
Dec. 9, 1807. Dear And Respected Sir, Ho...
guilty of a plagiarism , and ought to have been acquitted upon these articles of accusation . f Servetus was again at Paris , in 1537 , when he published an
elaborate treatise ^ De Katione Syruporum ^ of which a copy is preserved In the Royal Library at Konigsberg . Its title at large is , " Syruporumuniversa ratio ad Galeiii censuram diligenter
expolita cui post integram de con - coctione disputationem prescripta est vera purgandi methodus cum expositione aphorismi concocta medicare Michaele Villaenovano auctore .
rigor Toy ^ iX / fltr ^ oy 'Evfoat mowpw * ran cufMtrnt . rar § «• * - natvu *
fl /^ oc y xvf + u * Tmvr-ns 0 * y /*« r' % a $ i g $ } M Paris , ex officina Sim « Colinsci 1537- Venice , by Vincent Valgris , 1547 . If this treatise procured Servetus the honour of being called a most learned interpreter of Galen ,
an excellent physician ^ what then shall I say of his merits ?|| what encomiums must be bestowed upon him , when we see it evident , beyoncj any doubt , that he , long before Harvey , § was acquainted with the circulation of the blood , ]] as by the most eminent of this
• I . JL « Mosheim , p . 184 . Mich , dc la Roche BiM . Ang . t » ii , p . r . Art . 7 . p . 120 . and particularly Des Maizeaux Lettr . to De laMotte , upon the accusation of Servetus , with regard to his edition of Ptolemacus . Biblioth . Rauon . torn , iii . p , i . p ^ ge £ 72 . t Jo- Mart . Pistorius coll . edit , argent . Georg . Ptolomaei . cum ilia cujus Mich . Servetus auctor est » Misc . JLips . vol . x * p . ii . page ^ 74 . Mosheirn , § Ixxiii . \ AnU wander Linden Script . Med . JL . i . p . 486 . ed . 3 . Amst * 166 a . de la Monnoye Mcnagianay Tom . iv . p . 3 ^ 0 . I ) Moshcim , pp . yz , 499 ? and 500 . and lib ^ v . Rettitut * CBrutian . by Mosheim , < j xc . where this passage at full length is inserted , tL'auteur d * un voyage litter .
an 733- p . 170 . $ W * Wotton upon Ancient and Modern Learning , 3 d ed . * I See Harvey's JDiss . An atom , de Circul . Sanguinis , Cantabr , i 6 » 5 » dc motu jcordis £ zcrcit » i . cap , 7 .
Sketch Of The Life Of Servetus.'—Letter ...
Sketch of the Life of Servetus . ' —Letter 3 , 223
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/7/
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