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The Reformation · 1553

The Restoration of Christianity

Christianismi Restitutio

Michael Servetus · c. 1511–1553

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What it is

A complete alternative theology rejecting the Trinity and infant baptism, containing in passing the first European description of the pulmonary circulation of the blood.

Why it lasted

Its author was burned at Geneva with a copy chained to his leg. Three copies survived, and the controversy over his death began the modern argument for toleration.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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