Blessed Ramon Llull

Blessed Ramon Llull

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Blessed Ramon Llull Links

• The Birth of the Machine: Raymundus Lullus and His Invention Synopsis of an address by Werner Künzel, in which he discusses Lullus's logic machine, its use and abuse by Athanasius Kircher, and its influence on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
  
• Bl. Ramon Llull Short excerpts from Bl. Ramon's writings regarding divine law, and two brief quotes from Mark D. Johnston's "The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull."
  
• From the Middle Ages to Multimedia A capsule summary of Thessa Lindof's Ph.D. dissertation on Ramon Llull's "Ars Magna" and its significance for present-day theories of communication.
  
• Raymond Lull (1235?-1316) His place in the history of science, particularly psychology and medicine. Rather flippant about religion and somewhat dismissive of Lull.
  
• Monestir de Miramar: Raymond Lully Biography of their founder.
  
• Macmillan Encyclopedia: Lull, Ramón Very brief entry.
  
• Columbia Encyclopedia: Lull, Ramón Short biographical entry.
  
• Raimond Lull Description of a book in the collection of Dartmouth College, very brief biography of Lull, and a painted portrait.
  
• What Was Llull Up To? For the mathematically inclined.
  
• The Stoning of Philosopher Raymond Lull Anonymous 15th-century Spanish depiction of Lull's martyrdom.
  
• Ramon Llull (1232-1316) Illustrated biographical essay. Includes short bibliography.
  
• Ramón Lull Long biographical essay.
  
• Lully, Raymond Short biography.
  
• Ramon Lull with the ladders of his Art Color illustration. 14th-century miniature.
  
• Raymund Lull, First Missionary to the Moslems Full text of biographical book by Samuel M. Zwemer. Each chapter in its own file. Also available for download as a zip file.
  
• Llull, Ramon Unsigned biographical article in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
  
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Raymond Lully Biobibliographical article on Ramon Lull, called "Doctor Illuminatus."
  
• Lullus, Reymundus (1235-1312) Short biography, illustrated by early 16th-century woodcuts.
  
• Ramon Lull Chronology A historical timeline of his life.
  
• Llull, Ramón, d. 1315 Two illustrations from an 18th-century edition of his works, linked to a short biography.
  
• MacTutor History of Mathematics: Ramon Llull Biography, major works, importance in mathematics.
  
• The Ecole Glossary: Ramon Llull Biography of the Catalan mystic and missionary, by Karen Rae Keck.
  
• Knowledge Representation The cover art for John Sowa's book is Lull's tree of nature and logic. It is reproduced here, along with Sowa's explanation.
  
• The "Good Upbringing" of Ramon Llull's Blanquerna Although scholars sometimes eagerly look to Llull's "Book of Blanquerna" for information on elementary and secondary education in medieval Spain, it is at least as interesting for what it can tell us about Llull's cultural ideal.
  
• Ramon Lull's Ars Magna Lull may have been the first to use a mechanical device to generate logical proofs, an early logic machine of his own invention.
  
• Llull as Computer Scientist Essay on the ways in which Ramon Llull was an unacknowledged pioneer in many principles of logic and mathematics which are nowadays taken for granted.