ABSTRACT
ALEX KELLER See also Automata; Instrument Makers
Renaissance philosopher, educator, and communicator, Ramus is considered one of the greatest professors of Christian Europe. A forerunner of the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century and the unification movements of the nineteenth, his goals included reforming the teaching of grammar (Greek, French, and Latin), redistributing the functions of logic and rhetoric, adding physics and metaphysics to the liberal arts, increasing the value of mathematics, reconstructing the university curriculum, and arguing with great passion that all knowledge was available to anyone who was willing to
use the right method to discover it in his own language. All of these goals were to demonstrate that there was only one true method in learning, that it was based on a new dialectic, and that the dialectic was his own.
