Know thyself the opinion of the multitude. One work by the Medieval philosopher Peter Abelard is entitled "Scito te ipsum" (“know yourself”) or "Ethica". From 1539 onwards the phrase "nosce te ipsum" and its Latin variants were often used in the anonymous texts written for anatomical fugitive sheets printed in Venice as well as for later anatomical atlases printed throughout Europe. The 1530s fugitive sheets are the first instances in which the phrase was applied to knowledge of the human body attained through dissection. In 1651 Thomas Hobbes used the term "nosce teipsum" which he translated as 'read thyself' in his famous
Peter Abelard in the 12th–13th centuries. Abelard was an enormous influence on his contemporaries and the course of medieval philosophical thought, but he has been known in modern times mainly for his connection with Héloïse. Only one of his strictly philosophical works, the ethical treatise "Scito te ipsum", had been published before the 19th century, in 1721. It was only with the publication by Cousin in 1836 of the collection entitled "Ouvrages inedits d'Abelard" that Abelard's philosophical work began to be studied more closely. Cousin's collection gave extracts from the theological work "Sic et Non" ("Yes and No") which is an assemblage