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    554 Sketch of tke Life of Servetus. — >L...

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    Dec. 9, 1807. Dear And Respected Sir, Ho...

    useful profession of our times is acknowledged ^ while the same claim by others , though with less ground , is instituted in behalf of Fra . Paoli £ arpi . This truth does not detract in the least of Harvey's praise , as who , presumptively , was unacquainted with the lucubrations of Servetus . Both might

    have concluded it , by revolving in their minds the hints thrown upon this subject by Hippocrates , * Galen , t in his admirable treatise , De Usu Partium ; while Harvey

    might have heard or read what Realdus Columbus , professor of anatomy at Padova , published , Rome , 1559 j or Andreas Cisalpinus , in his Peripatetic Questions , Venice , 1571 , whkrh were

    reprinted 159 ? , had said ; though to him was reserved the glory of having demonstrated this important truth . J The celebrity of Servetus , joined to his ardent desire to

    communicate his religious 6 pinions with literary men of eminence , with the envious emulation of many of his profession , especially in Paris his residence , together with his excursions in Italy , may have contributed to spread abroad

    his religious sentiments * So much , at least , is certain ^ Sir , that they were not only known witjiin the territory of Venice , but freely discussed there , and adopted by many . || Among the treatises published by the academy at Ve »

    Dec. 9, 1807. Dear And Respected Sir, Ho...

    nice , 1559 , are , among otheis , MaximuS ) de Christi mysteriis ac confessione : Disputatio de Sp . S . e Sacrarum Literarum fontibus deducta * Disputatio ad versus Turcas . Athanasius de Unitate Trinitatis . Idem adv . Arianos Grseci diversorum auctorum in

    D . Joan . Evang . Commentarii . This conjecture is further corfo . borated by Melanchton ' s hortatory Letter to the Senate of Ve « nice , an . 1 53 <) v wherein he warns them , as admonished by one

    Braeceotti , who had been at Wittemberg iC that Servetus ' s book was spread abroad in their dominions , *' and begs them , that they may

    endeavour to fly from , to expel , and execrate the impious errors of Servetus >§ ?> Servetus resided for some time , between the years of 1538 and 1540 / at Charlieuj 12 miles dis .

    tance from Lyons , where he fol - lowed his profession in physic ; from which city he moved to Vi * enne ^ in Dauphine , where he was in tke beginning of 1541 . This must be concluded from his

    dedication of his edition of Ptolomaeus , to Peter Palmenius , archbishop and count of Vienhe who heaped upon Servetus manv

    favours , and had persuaded him to fix his residence in thatcity . ff * It is true , . Sir , that Servetus published in 1545 , the edition of Pagnini ' s Bibte , ** with his preface and annotations ; from which , as

    ? DeMorbis , p . 1 ^ 7 . f P art vi cap * 10 . \ See the Vindication of Dr . Pitcairrt , Rott . 1701 , of which Bocrharen | jivc § the following character : " Hasc scripta optima sunt et perfecta , siye legas duscrtationem de motu sanguinUper pulmones f sive alia opuscula , seu ultimum tractatum de Opio . Methu 5 tud . edit . Halleri . t ) De Porta Hist . Reform , EccL lUpt . tom . i « lib . u . p . 63 . ^ Op . Melancht . vol . iv » or Ep . t . i . p . 100 . and in Cons , et Resp . P . i . p * 33 "' ^ Mosheim , 1 . c . lxxiv . c * ** Biblia Sacra ex Sancti Pagnini translationc , uda ad Hcbrawe lingun amui-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/8/