(1232 - 1316)
Ramon Llull was born about 1232 on the island of Majorca. He wrote the Ars Magna (Great Art), a method for generating truths through combinations of concepts. This work is considered a precursor to computer science and computational theory. He was a philosopher, logician, and Franciscan tertiary who wrote extensively on logic, philosophy, and mysticism in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic.