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First edition of the Dialectica. Aristotelian Animadversions. Euclid in Latin.
...God opposed to the Parisian Academy and its public goods in the year 1545, by whom his will and desire, so vehemently inflamed to illustrate the Academy, might be disturbed and vexed in a thousand ways, and, if it had been permitted, extinguished. It is worth the effort to repeat the calamities of that vexation from the Academy of Talaeus. When brother Petrus Ramus (says Talaeus) had spoken against the opinion of the Aristotelians in that most customary manner, approved at all times, two men were so vehemently angered and moved that they thought anyone who criticized Aristotle was throwing all arts into confusion, perverting human and divine laws, stealing away all liberty of human judgment; in short, as if taking the sun from the world, and inspired by an Aristotelian spirit, they exclaimed that such a crime must be expiated by fire. And so that we might not lack testimony to such great folly (for it would hardly be credible, unless it were held as testified and handed down in writing), they decided that this should be proclaimed and divulged by pamphlets written against the Aristotelian Animadversions and sent through the world; and since these men have been sufficiently vexed by themselves, and perpetually despised by my brother, and finally sufficiently refuted by the Aristotelian judgment rescinded, I do not think they should be noted more severely by me. But why do I mention the two Aristotelians here, when the whole nation of these men is the same? For truly, what unique and unheard-of history shall I relate? There has always been the greatest liberty for grammarians, rhetoricians, mathematicians, and philosophers to speak and write against grammarians, rhetoricians, mathematicians, and philosophers; and that liberty, because it seemed greatly to pertain to the perfection of all arts, was highly approved and uniquely commended by the precepts of all philosophers, especially Aristotle. But since P. Ramus had dared to prick the sleeping Aristotelians with his Aristotelian Animadversions, good God, it is horrifying to remember what happened; I shall pass over the more atrocious things, I shall name no one from the Aristotelians; I shall simply touch upon the sum of the matters. Scarcely had the Aristotelian Animadversions been read, when P. Ramus was called by the Academy not to some human and literary disputation customary in letters, but was snatched by certain men in the false name of the Academy to the capital contention of the praetorian tribunal, and was accused of a new crime, unheard of before this day, because by opposing Aristotle...