Tree of Science (Ramon Llull)

The Tree of Science (Arbre de la ciència, Arbor Scientiae) is a work by Ramon Llull that he wrote in Rome between 1295 and 1296.^[1]

Summary

An encyclopaedic version of Llull's Art or Ars magna, the Tree of Science consists of sixteen parts, or trees.^[2]^[3] The first fourteen trees constitute the hierarchy of reality: elemental, vegetal, sensual, imaginal, human, moral, imperial, apostolic, celestial, angelic, “eviternal” (pertaining to life after death), maternal (pertaining to the Virgin Mary), divine and human (pertaining to Jesus), and divine (pertaining to God) trees. The last two trees, the tree of examples and the tree of questions, show how to take concepts from the first fourteen trees and formulate examples and questions in order to further investigate the properties of reality. Each tree is in turn divided into seven parts: roots, trunk, branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, and fruit. In every tree the roots represent the general principles of the Lullian Art (goodness, greatness, duration, power, wisdom, will, virtue, truth, glory, difference, concordance, contrariety, beginning, middle, end, majority, equality and minority) and each successive part of the tree shows how the principles come together to form more specific, complex elements of reality.^[4]

References

Citations

^ "Arbre de ciència; Arbor scientiae". Ramon Llull Database. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
^ Badia, Lola (2002). "The Arbor scientiae: A «new» encyclopedia in the thirteenth-century Occitan-Catalan cultural context," in Arbor Scientiae: der Baum des Wissens von Ramon Lull. Akten des Internationalen Kongresses aus Anlass des 40-jährigen Jubiläums des Raimundus-Lullus-Instituts der Universität Freiburg i. Br. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 1–19.
^ See the English translation of the Arbor scientiae by Yanis Dambergs: https://lullianarts.narpan.net/TreeOfScience/TreeOfScience-1.pdf and https://lullianarts.narpan.net/TreeOfScience/TreeOfScience2.pdf
^ Bonner, Anthony (2002). "The structure of the Arbor scientiae," in Arbor Scientiae: der Baum des Wissens von Ramon Lull. Akten des Internationalen Kongresses aus Anlass des 40-jährigen Jubiläums des Raimundus-Lullus-Instituts der Universität Freiburg i. Br. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 21–34.

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[1] "Arbre de ciència; Arbor scientiae". Ramon Llull Database. Retrieved 26 April 2022.

[2] Badia, Lola (2002). "The Arbor scientiae: A «new» encyclopedia in the thirteenth-century Occitan-Catalan cultural context," in Arbor Scientiae: der Baum des Wissens von Ramon Lull. Akten des Internationalen Kongresses aus Anlass des 40-jährigen Jubiläums des Raimundus-Lullus-Instituts der Universität Freiburg i. Br. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 1–19.

[3] See the English translation of the Arbor scientiae by Yanis Dambergs: https://lullianarts.narpan.net/TreeOfScience/TreeOfScience-1.pdf and https://lullianarts.narpan.net/TreeOfScience/TreeOfScience2.pdf

[4] Bonner, Anthony (2002). "The structure of the Arbor scientiae," in Arbor Scientiae: der Baum des Wissens von Ramon Lull. Akten des Internationalen Kongresses aus Anlass des 40-jährigen Jubiläums des Raimundus-Lullus-Instituts der Universität Freiburg i. Br. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 21–34.

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