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Leibniz was inspired by Ramon Llull, a 13th century philospher/mystic/poet from Mallorca. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/let-us-calculate-leibniz-llull-a
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Leibniz was inspired by Ramon Llull, a 13th century philospher/mystic/poet from Mallorca.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/let-us-calculate-leibniz-llull-and-the-computational-imagination https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/let-us-calculate-leibni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull
- chestertn 5y agoRight! Unfortunately, because the feud between Catholics and Protestants at that time, the later seldom recognize the influences of the former and it seems that there were these “dark ages” until they arrived. See, for instance, the School of Salamanca: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/school-salamanca/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/school-salamanca/