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A review by libkatem
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World by Nancy Goldstone, Lawrence Goldstone
4.0
"History is an Ocean that books help us navigate. It is the permenence of the printed word that has allowed ideas to travel from place to place, from age to age. It is easy to dismiss the sixteenth century as the distant past, but Servetus, Calvin, Luther, Erasmus, Charles, Francis and the rest were dealing with the forces of an emerging technology much as we are today."
Out of the Flames is certainly a fascinating tale of one man, Michel Servetus, a Spanish Physician, whose theories about philosophy, religion, and pulminary circulation, got him burned at the stake by John Calvin, whose book faded in and out of obscurity, only three copies remain- in Vienna, Paris, and Edinburgh, yet still managed to influence some of the greatest minds in Europe and the Americas from the moment of his death to as recently as World War Two.
Read this book! If you are not a historian, it will give you a wonderful overview of about 400 years of European history, if you are a historian, it will give more depth to subjects already studied.
Out of the Flames is certainly a fascinating tale of one man, Michel Servetus, a Spanish Physician, whose theories about philosophy, religion, and pulminary circulation, got him burned at the stake by John Calvin, whose book faded in and out of obscurity, only three copies remain- in Vienna, Paris, and Edinburgh, yet still managed to influence some of the greatest minds in Europe and the Americas from the moment of his death to as recently as World War Two.
Read this book! If you are not a historian, it will give you a wonderful overview of about 400 years of European history, if you are a historian, it will give more depth to subjects already studied.