Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Christianismi Restitutio
Servetus's 1553 'Restoration of Christianity' — anti-Trinitarianism, anti-paedobaptism, the pulmonary circulation, and the stake at Geneva
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Christianismi Restitutio (Late (final)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | NDet |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Christianismi Restitutio
January 1553. Servetus was 42 and had been corresponding with Calvin (sending him portions of the manuscript for comment) since 1546; the correspondence had hardened Calvin's hostility.
Space
Christianismi Restitutio
Vienne (Dauphiné), France — Servetus's residence under his pseudonym 'Michel de Villeneuve' since c. 1538, where he served as personal physician to Archbishop Pierre Palmier. The publication was clandestine because Servetus knew the contents would lead to prosecution.
Matter
Christianismi Restitutio
Seven-book Latin theological treatise (~700 pages in the original). Form is systematic-theological with embedded physiological-anatomical material in Book V.
Observer
Christianismi Restitutio
Late Servetus. The observer-theologian-physician is the medical-philosophical polymath who combined heterodox theology with substantial empirical-anatomical work.
Energy
Christianismi Restitutio
Final-radical theological and proto-scientific energies. The book's combination of theological radicalism with embedded medical-scientific discovery is distinctive.
Information
Christianismi Restitutio
Single book of seven theological books plus the embedded pulmonary-circulation passage. Only three copies survived the post-execution destruction; the book's information-history is itself a major historical-scientific topic.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The work that led to Servetus's execution at Geneva and stands as a foundational text of both modern anti-Trinitarianism and (in its physiological passage) the discovery of the pulmonary circulation. The death of Servetus (by burning, with green wood to slow the fire) provoked the major sixteenth-century debate over religious toleration (Sebastian Castellio's 'De Haereticis, An Sint Persequendi', 1554) and has been continuously cited in the history of religious toleration and free thought.