The First Book of Logical Exercises by Andreas Libavius

that knowledge; they would be forced to return to childhood, and would be held as less learned. But I have heard many good men who give thanks to God for the faithful and clear information of their children, thinking them happy because they are informed more correctly. Indeed, some do not blush to learn from our own books/materials and to listen to our lectures and diligently unfold our books. These, surely, are those Platonists and Theophrasteans followers of Theophrastus who would argue even with one foot in the grave, and who marvel that such an ancient way of declaring logic had lain hidden for so long due to the ignorance and inertia of men, that today it appears entirely new.
Ex accident, that which is eternal by its own nature appears new to the world.

7. Concerning the hated name of Ramus.

Ph. They attribute these things not to Cicero but to Ramus Petrus Ramus, the French logician, the inventor.
Or. It is agreed that this man, by his own cleverness, brought it about that logic could be taught elegantly and with the greatest dexterity. But he is the inventor of neither the things nor the words. The name of Ramus is hated by many and brings envy upon the art by a clearly sinister judgment. For why should Ramus harm the art that was cultivated by him? Could the impious Galen Greek physician afflict medicine with equal ignominy? And why is Ramus, a Christian, more hateful than the Heathen Aristotle and the blasphemous Pliny? If one of our own had attempted this, they would, of course, carry him to the heavens. Our logic ought to be more alien to this envy, because it does not have everything Ramian.