BIBLIOGRAPHY
The most extensive treatment of Ramus and Ramism is
to be found in Walter J. Ong, Ramus, Method, and the Decay
of Dialogue (Cambridge, Mass., 1958), which contains an
exhaustive bibliography. The same author's Ramus and
Talon Inventory (Cambridge, Mass., 1958) locates in quan-
tity copies of editions of these authors' works, catalogues
the Ramist controversies, and gives a list of hundreds of
Ramists, anti-Ramists, and semi-Ramists or syncretists; this
work is being enlarged by the author to include new discov-
eries. I. M. Bochenski, A History of Formal Logic (Notre Dame,
Ind., 1961), and Wilhelm Risse, Die Logik der Neuzeit, Vol. I,
(Stuttgart, 1964), situate Ramus' logic in the history of the
science. The Art of Memory, by Frances A. Yates (Chicago,
1966), places Ramism in the history of mnemonics and
discusses the Bruno-Dicson-Perkins dispute omitted by Ong
from his catalogue of Ramist controversies. R. Hooykaas,
Humanisme, science, et réforme: Pierre de la Ramée (Leiden,
1958), treats Ramus and the artisan-technology world. W.
S. Howell's Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700
(Princeton, 1956) situates Ramus' work in one of the major
national traditions. The history of method is discussed in
Neal W. Gilbert, Renaissance Concepts of Method (New
York, 1960). Petrus Ramus en de Wiskunde, by J. J. Verdonk
(Assen, 1966), exhaustively studies Ramus' place in the
history of mathematics. See also Ong, “Peter Ramus and
the Naming of Methodism,” Journal of the History of Ideas,
14 (1953), 235-48; idem, “Ramist Classroom Procedure and
the Nature of Reality,” Studies in English Literature, 1
(1961), 31-47; and idem, “Ramist Method and the Commer-
cial Mind,” Studies in the Renaissance, 8 (1961), 155-72.
WALTER JACKSON ONG
[See also Iconography; Necessity;
Platonism;Renaissance
Humanism; Rhetoric.]
