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pneu’ma [is the Holy Spirit an hypostasis]? For my own part I
refer to those passages of Scripture that bid us call on Christ, which
is to ascribe divine honors to him, and find them full of
consolation.” f1051
Cochlaeus directed the attention of Quintana, at the Diet of Regensburg, in
1532, to the book of Servetus which was sold there, and Quintana at once
took measures to suppress it. The Emperor prohibited it, and the book
soon disappeared.
Servetus published in 1532 two dialogues on the Trinity, and a treatise on
Justification. He retracted, in the preface, all he had said in his former
work, not, however, as false, but as childish. f1052 He rejected the Lutheran
doctrine of justification, and also both the Lutheran and Zwinglian views of
the sacrament. He concluded the book by invoking a malediction on “all
tyrants of the Church.” f1053
§ 142. SERVETUS AS A GEOGRAPHER.
As Servetus was repulsed by the Reformers of Switzerland and Germany,
he left for France and assumed the name of MICHEL DE VILLENEUVE. His
real name and his obnoxious books disappeared from the sight of the world
till they emerged twenty years later at Vienne and at Geneva. He devoted
himself to the study of mathematics, geography, astrology, and medicine.
In 1534 he was in Paris, and challenged the young Calvin to a disputation,
but failed to appear at the appointed hour.
He spent some time at Lyons as proof-reader and publisher of the famous
printers, Melchior and Caspar Trechsel. He issued through them, in 1535,
under the name of “Villanovanus,” a magnificent edition of Ptolemy’s
Geography, with a self-laudatory preface, which concludes with the hope
that “no one will underestimate the labor, though pleasant in itself, that is
implied in the collation of our text with that of earlier editions, unless it be
some Zoilus of contracted brow, who cannot look without envy upon the
zealous labors of others.” A second and improved edition appeared in
1541. f1054
The discoveries of Columbus and his successors gave a strong impulse to
geographical studies, and called forth several editions of the work of
Ptolemy the famous Alexandrian geographer and astronomer of the second
century. f1055 The edition of Villeneuve is based upon that of Pirkheimer of