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LULL, RAMON. Opera ea quae ad adinventam ab ipso artem universalem, scientiarum artiumque omnium brevi compendio . . . pertinent. With commentaries by Giordano Bruno and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. Numerous woodcut text diagrams (none with working volvelles); 3 double-page letterpress tables. [24], 992, [31] pages. 8vo, 180x108 mm, 17th-century vellum with remnants of cloth ties; occasional marginal dampstaining, 17th-century owner's inscription on title. Strassburg: Lazarus Zetzner, 1598
first collected edition of writings by the medieval polymath Lull on his Ars magna, or universal system of knowledge: Ars brevis, De auditu Kabbalistico, Duodecim principia philosophiae Lullianae, Dialectica seu Logica nova, Rhetorica, and Ars magna. These are followed by Bruno's De Lulliano specierum scrutinio, De lampade combinatoria Lulliana, and De progressu et lampade venatoria logicorum; and Agrippa's Commentaria in artem brevem Lullianam. The volume ends with Lull's Articuli fidei. "The most distinctive characteristic of Lull's Art is clearly its combinatory nature, which led to both the use of complex semimechanical techniques . . . and to the symbolic notation of its alphabet. These features justify its classification among the forerunners of both modern symbolic logic and computer science, with its systematically exhaustive consideration of all possible combinations of the material under examination, reduced to a symbolic coding"--DSB VIII, 549. Duveen, page 371; Palau 143675; Sarton II, 901-03.
