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In the early 17th century, many within the Church believed that the liver was the center of the body. Those who disagreed with this idea where not well accepted, another scientist, Michael Servedo apparently moved in the same direction a century earlier but was burned at the stake for heresy - I cannot find out if this was the cause of his trial, he also published works interpreting Sacred Scripture.

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