Ramon Llull (1232-1315) was a Mallorcan philosopher, logician, writer and religious figure who published many texts that are still widely read to this day. Born to a wealthy Catalan family in Palma, he possessed a formidable intellect, working in Catalan, Latin, Arabic and Hebrew. He also created an innovative debating and reasoning tool called the ars combinatoria. The ars combinatoria has lead some to pronounce LLull as the founder of modern computing. Its system of logic was the ...