An impartial history of Michael Servetus, burnt alive at Geneva for heresie / [By Sir Benjamin Hodges?].

  • Servetus, Michael, 1511?-1553.
Date:
1724
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Credit: An impartial history of Michael Servetus, burnt alive at Geneva for heresie / [By Sir Benjamin Hodges?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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