Petrus Ramus receives an appointment from Henry…

Petrus Ramus receives an appointment from Henry II in 1551 as a regius professor at the Collège de Navarre but prefers to call himself a professor of philosophy and eloquence at the Collège de France, where for a considerable time he lectures before audiences numbering as many as 2,000.

Pierre Galland, another professor here, publishes Contra novam academiam Petri Rami oratio (1551), and calls him a "parricide" for his attitude to Aristotle.

The more serious charge is that he is a nouveau academicien, in other words a skeptic.

Talon, the constant ally of Ramus, had indeed published a work in 1548 derived from Cicero's description of Academic scepticism, the school of Arcesilaus and Carneades.

The teachings of Ramus are to have a broadly based reception well into the seventeenth century.

Later movements, such as Baconianism, pansophism, and Cartesianism, will in different ways build on Ramism, and take advantage of the space cleared by some of the simplifications (and over-simplifications) it had effected.

The longest-lasting strand of Ramism is to be in systematic Calvinist theology, where textbook treatments with a Ramist framework will still be used into the eighteenth century, particularly in New England.