While I am a big fan of Meerhoff's work (see also, ‘‘Beauty and the Beast’: Nature, Logic and Literature in Ramus," in The Influence of Petrus Ramus, ed. Feingold, Freedman, and Rother), I might use it with some caution. I love his revaluation of Ramus, but I don't think that he properly weighs the consequences of the truncated publication Ramus's first English translator, Roland MacIlmaine--or other rhetorics that draw from Ramus (pretty directly) like Dudley Fenner's The Artes of Logike and Rethorike. These texts omit Ramus's prudential method entirely and, I would argue, are terrifically influential to the reception of Ramus in England.
Best,
Kim
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