History

Michael Servetus was a Spanish Polymath. He studied Math, Law, Astrology, Anatomy, medicine, weather, drugs, languages and poetry. He was the first European to describe the circulatory system. Servetus also wrote his opinions on religion. He published a book called, “Errors of the Trinity” in which he argued that Jesus and the Holy Ghost were not God but God was Jesus and the Holy Ghost. Instead of God 3 in 1, he asserted that they’re actually God 1 in 3. Servetus insisted that Jesus should be called “the Son of the Eternal God” instead of “Eternal son of God.” This angered the Catholic establishment in Spain and the Inquisition sought to capture Servetus and hold him on trial of heresy. The charge of heresy was punishable by death. Servetus ran away to Paris, changed his name and taught lectures. He was very active in the astrology society as well as the medical society. In one of his classes he taught a works by the Greek Stoic named Cicero. The book argued against prophe

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Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, Norfolk, England. Early in his life he suffered the loss of his wife, his child, and his business. He took a job as a tax collector and ended up writing pamphlets advocating for pay rises for tax collectors. He became relatively well known and ended up meeting Benjamin Franklin who had been living in London for a number of years. When Franklin returned to Philadelphia in 1775 he invited Paine to join him. With the American revolution in full swing, Paine latched on to their cause and became very passionate about it. He wrote Common Sense anonymously and it became hugely popular. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at taverns and meeting places. In proportion to the population of the colonies at that time (2.5 million), it had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in American history. It was rumored that John Adam's had wrote it but in a private letter to his wife Abigail, he admitted that he had not and