Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

fantastic genius, an active but illogical mind, an
inordinate ambition, and a defective judgment.[2]
He studied with characteristic versatility law,
divinity, physic, and some have said astrology.
After a short but distinguished career as a lecturer
on the physical sciences in Paris,[3] he ultimately
established himself at Vienne, in Dauphine, as a
medical practitioner.[4] In this profession he
discovered superior skill, and in his first work, On
the Errors of the Trinity (1531), he anticipated the
great discovery of our own Harvey of the
circulation of the blood.[5] His mind, speculative,
daring, lawless, of the scholastic rather than the
Reformation type, followed its bent, which was
ethical, not physical.
He spent fully twenty years of his life in
wandering up and down in Christendom, visiting
Germany, Italy, Switzerland, venting his fancies
and reveries, unsettling the minds of men, and
offending every one he came in contact with by his
pride, self-sufficiency, and dissimulation.[6] He
believed that he possessed the power, and had
received a commission, to remodel all knowledge,
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