Majorcan writer and philosopher (c.1232–1315/6)
A 13th-century Majorcan who tried to build a universal logic machine — wheels and diagrams that could mechanically prove Christian truth to anyone, anywhere. His combinatorial Art flopped in his lifetime, then got confused with alchemy, and now turns up in footnotes about computation theory and voting systems, centuries before either field existed.
Born around 1232 in Palma de Mallorca, Llull was a knight before he became a Catholic philosopher, theologian, and missionary. He invented the Art, a system of general principles and combinatorial operations illustrated with diagrams, meant as a universal logic to prove Christian doctrine to people of all faiths and nationalities. A prolific writer, he composed literary works in Catalan to spread the Art to wider audiences, and his books were translated into Occitan, French, and Castilian while he lived — he likely wrote in Arabic too, though none survives. The work didn't catch on, and by the…
Sourced, dated quotes from Ramon Llull
Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.
If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.
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