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Ramism
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Ramism
the doctrines of Pierre de la Ramée (Ramus), who opposed scholasticism and the dialectics of Aristotle. — Ramist, n., adj.
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In this book Rothmann borrowed arguments from Ioannes Pena, a mathematician from the Paris circle of Petrus Ramus active in the 1550s, to establish that the substance of the heavens was fluid, as the Stoics taught, and not solid, as Aristotelians believed.
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Pasquier had studied at the Parisian college of Petrus Ramus, not far from that of Dorat.
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