Puig de Randa
Mountain in the centre of Mallorca, Spain, where Ramon Llull lived as a hermit.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness | Carlo Rovelli | turning point | Where Llull, after a hermitage, conceives the Ars magna. |
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness — Carlo Rovelli (2020)
Source: There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness · Readwise highlight
In 1274, at the end of a long hermitage on Puig de Randa, a mountain on the island of Majorca, Ramon Llull conceives
- Role: turning point
- In the book: The opening sentence of the essay “Ramon Llull: Ars magna”. At the end of a long hermitage on the mountain, Llull conceives, “by divine revelation, he claims”, the great work that becomes the core of his life: a combinatorial system of tables and rotating paper circles meant to bring order to the world and convert Jews and Muslims to Christianity.
- Why it matters: Minor as a place: it is a single origin scene, and the essay moves on to combinatorics and Llull’s influence. But it is the essay’s starting point.