The French humanist logician and mathematician Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) founded the anti-Aristotelian philosophical school of Ramism. Petrus Ramus was born Pierre de La Ramée in the village of Cuth in Picardy. He worked and studied at the...

Ramus, Peter(1515 172. Ong, Walter J., S.J. Ramus and Talon Inventory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958. Ong, Walter J., S.J. Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958. Includes an exhaustive...

1515-1572 French philosopher and mathematician, born Pierre de la Ramee, who led the movement to reform the dogmatic adherence to Aristotelian philosophy by the intellectuals of his day (Scholastics). He laid the groundwork for the development of a...

Petrus Ramus, or Pierre de la Ramée (1515 – August 26, 1572), French humanist, logician, and educational reformer, was born at the village of Cuts in Picardy, a member of a noble but impoverished family: his father was a farmer and his...