RAIMONDO SEBOND (DE SIBIUDA). - Spanish physician, philosopher, and theologian, he taught at Tolosa, where he died on 29 Apr. 1436.
At Tolosa, during the last two years of his life, he composed the Liber creaturarum, printed ca. 1484 under the title Theologia naturalis. In this work, inspired Lullo (v.), the author seeks to teach man to read in the two books that God himself has set before him: the book of nature and Holy Scripture. Both these books give man certain knowledge, easily acquired in a short time, concerning his origins and his destiny, and render every other science useless. On account of certain bold assertions, the prologue of the work was censured by the Council of Trent and suppressed in later editions. experience (v.) and the discredit it casts upon the method of Scholasticism, the work attracted the attention of M. Montaigne (v.), who made it the subject of an extensive exposition and apology in the famous chap. 12 of Book II of his Essais.