Raymond of Sabunde
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Raymond of Sabunde (also Ramon Sibiuda, Sabiende, Sabond, Sabonde, Sebon, Sebonde, or Sebeyde, c. 1385 – 29 April 1436)) was a Catalan scholar, teacher of medicine and philosophy and finally regius professor of theology at Toulouse, best-known for his Liber naturae sive creaturarum and Montaigne's subsequent defense of it, "Apology for Raymond de Sebonde".
Biography
He was born in Barcelona, (at that time the major Catalan city of the Crown of Aragon), towards the end of the 14th century and died in 1436. He is known for his Liber naturae sive creaturarum (or Theologia Naturalis) (1434–1436), which marks an important stage in the history of natural theology. Montaigne (Essays, bk. ii. ch. xii., "Apology for Raymond de Sebonde") tells how he translated the book into French and found " the conceits of the author to be excellent, the contexture of his work well followed, and his project full of pietie. . . . His drift is bold, and his scope adventurous, for he undertaketh by humane and naturall reasons, to establish and verifie all the articles of Christian religion against Atheists."