Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Michael Servetus’s Britain: Anatomy of a Renaissance Geographer’s Writing
View through CrossRef
Michael Servetus was a theologian, physician, astrologer, and editor. In the latter capacity he edited two editions of Ptolemy’s Geographia, to which he added some apparatus and several articles that described European countries and peoples. Following in the footsteps of medieval and Renaissance geographical writers before him, Servetus did his research less by travelling and more by reading. His “original” pieces, like the works of the authors upon whom he drew, were thus a patchwork of quotations and borrowings from earlier books. This article examines both what Servetus said about Great Britain, a place he never visited, and the nature and quality of the information that he, his predecessors, and his followers provided for their readers. Such an examination helps us understand the way a learned polymath such as Servetus worked in composing his heretical critique of the Trinity and in gaining the insights that led him to make the first European description of the circulation of blood through the lungs.
Michael Servetus était théologien, médecin, astrologue et éditeur. Dans ce dernier rôle, il a révisé deux éditions de la Geographia de Ptolémée, à laquelle il a ajouté un apparat critique ainsi que plusieurs articles décrivant des pays et des peuples d’Europe. Suivant les traces des écrivains géographes du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance qui l’ont précédé, Servetus a mené ses recherches par ses lectures bien plus que par des voyages. Ses ajouts « originaux » empruntent aux travaux de plusieurs auteurs, faisant de ses textes des assemblages de citations et d’extraits pris d’ouvrages préexistants. Cet article examine ce que Servetus dit de la Grande Bretagne, qu’il n’a jamais visitée, ainsi que la nature et la qualité des informations qu’il propose aux lecteurs, qu’elles soient de son cru ou d’autres auteurs. Cet examen nous permet de mieux comprendre comment un polymathe tel que Servetus a pu composer sa critique hétérodoxe de la Trinité et développer des idées conduisant à décrire pour la première fois en Europe le passage du sang par les poumons.
Title: Michael Servetus’s Britain: Anatomy of a Renaissance Geographer’s Writing
Description:
Michael Servetus was a theologian, physician, astrologer, and editor.
In the latter capacity he edited two editions of Ptolemy’s Geographia, to which he added some apparatus and several articles that described European countries and peoples.
Following in the footsteps of medieval and Renaissance geographical writers before him, Servetus did his research less by travelling and more by reading.
His “original” pieces, like the works of the authors upon whom he drew, were thus a patchwork of quotations and borrowings from earlier books.
This article examines both what Servetus said about Great Britain, a place he never visited, and the nature and quality of the information that he, his predecessors, and his followers provided for their readers.
Such an examination helps us understand the way a learned polymath such as Servetus worked in composing his heretical critique of the Trinity and in gaining the insights that led him to make the first European description of the circulation of blood through the lungs.
Michael Servetus était théologien, médecin, astrologue et éditeur.
Dans ce dernier rôle, il a révisé deux éditions de la Geographia de Ptolémée, à laquelle il a ajouté un apparat critique ainsi que plusieurs articles décrivant des pays et des peuples d’Europe.
Suivant les traces des écrivains géographes du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance qui l’ont précédé, Servetus a mené ses recherches par ses lectures bien plus que par des voyages.
Ses ajouts « originaux » empruntent aux travaux de plusieurs auteurs, faisant de ses textes des assemblages de citations et d’extraits pris d’ouvrages préexistants.
Cet article examine ce que Servetus dit de la Grande Bretagne, qu’il n’a jamais visitée, ainsi que la nature et la qualité des informations qu’il propose aux lecteurs, qu’elles soient de son cru ou d’autres auteurs.
Cet examen nous permet de mieux comprendre comment un polymathe tel que Servetus a pu composer sa critique hétérodoxe de la Trinité et développer des idées conduisant à décrire pour la première fois en Europe le passage du sang par les poumons.
Related Results
Western Mesoamerican Calendars and Writing Systems
Western Mesoamerican Calendars and Writing Systems
<i>Western Mesoamerican Calendars and Writing Systems</i> draws together studies by some of the world’s leading experts presented at a conference held in December 2020,...
Student’s Perception of Dissecting a Human Cadaver Compared to Usage of 3D Anatomy Virtual Dissection Table to Learn Gross Anatomy
Student’s Perception of Dissecting a Human Cadaver Compared to Usage of 3D Anatomy Virtual Dissection Table to Learn Gross Anatomy
Background: Limited availability of cadaver and modern discoveries has led to alternate channels to gain anatomy knowledge. Aim: To know the perception of these new sources compare...
EKSISTENSI MANTAN PETINJU NASIONAL SEBAGAI PETARUNG PENCAK DOR KEDIRI MELALUI FILM DOKUMENTER POTRET “MICHAEL SPEED”
EKSISTENSI MANTAN PETINJU NASIONAL SEBAGAI PETARUNG PENCAK DOR KEDIRI MELALUI FILM DOKUMENTER POTRET “MICHAEL SPEED”
ABSTRAKPenyutradaraan karya film dokumenter potret ini ialah untuk memberikan gambaran kehidupan seorang mantan petinju nasional dan petarung Pencak Dor di Kediri bernama Michael ‘...
Indigo in the Atlantic World
Indigo in the Atlantic World
Hundreds of plants contain the basic chemical elements of indigo, a dye used widely since prehistoric times. Prior to the sixteenth century, several species of Indigofera were grow...
Jonathan Goldberg
Jonathan Goldberg
Astonishingly prolific, literary theorist Jonathan Goldberg has published fourteen books, and edited or coedited five more. Goldberg took his PhD in 1968 from Columbia University w...
Inflammation of the central nose considering variant anatomy in respiratory allergy
Inflammation of the central nose considering variant anatomy in respiratory allergy
Background: in respiratory allergy, a concept of a common respiratory epithelium of the nasal cavity and sinuses allows for a view from a different perspective on the changes of th...
An Innovative Artist in the Northern Renaissance: Jan Van Eyck
An Innovative Artist in the Northern Renaissance: Jan Van Eyck
With the Renaissance, societies have a wide variety of options with different perspectives on life and accordingly. It allows building and building the development in chapters 14 a...
Forewarned is forearmed: The brave new world of (Creative) Writing online
Forewarned is forearmed: The brave new world of (Creative) Writing online
Online Writing courses, including Creative Writing programs, have been delivered in Australia for more than a decade. While most providers of online writing programs offer units in...
Recent Results
Le Net art et l'esthétique du partage
Le Net art et l'esthétique du partage
Ramzi Turki, Art and the Internet, 2019, L'Harmattan...
IXe Festival culturel national
IXe Festival culturel national
Festival national des arts et de la culture (9th 1973 Conakry, Guinea), Art festivals, 1975, Impr. nationale "Patrice Lumumba,"...