The Ars Magna (or Ars Generalis Ultima) of Raymond Lull (1232-1316) is an astonishing attempt to systematise all possible knowledge using a rigorous computational procedure. Lull was very much ahead of his time and the working out of his system was often performed with nothing more sophisticated than some pieces of paper cut out into circles and pinned in the centre. 700 years later we have the chance to explore Lull with the convenience of a computer.1. The small package: ArsMagnaSmall.zip 1.79MB
You can eventually supplement the small download with ArsMagnaExtra.zip 2.58MB, which contains the extra works included in the full package.2. The full download ArsMagnaFull.zip 4.38MB (no need to download the extra package)
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vbrun60sp5.exe
