This writer relates how a tyrant named Archias deferred opening a letter detailing a plot to kill him by saying, "Tomorrow is a new day," in an argument in favor of curiosity. Quotations like, "To every opinion an opinion of equal weight is opposed" are inscribed on the beams of a tower in which this man wrote. This man's father Pierre Eyquem tasked him with translating a Catalan monk's Natural Theology. This man wrote such lines as, "I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself," and, "What do I know?" That motto is in "The Apology for Raymond Sebond," which was one of this man's "attempts" that popularized an argumentative genre of writing. For 10 points, name th
This writer relates how a tyrant named Archias deferred opening a letter detailing a plot to kill him by saying, "Tomorrow is a new day," in an argument in favor of curiosity. Quotations like, "To every opinion an opinion of equal weight is opposed" are inscribed on the beams of a tower in which this man wrote. This man's father Pierre Eyquem tasked him with translating a Catalan monk's Natural Theology. This man wrote such lines as, "I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself," and, "What do I know?" That motto is in "The Apology for Raymond Sebond," which was one of this man's "attempts" that popularized an argumentative genre of writing. For 10 points, name this sixteenth-century French author of the Essays.