A Majorcan (Spainish) writer, philisopher, logician, apologist, and missionary. He is considered to be the first missionary to the Muslim world, he was martyered on his third trip. He created a devise, known as Ars Magna, that he felt would answer any objection to the Christian faith. His novel Blaquerna was not only the first novel written in a Western language, but along with his De Arte Eleccionis (Techniques of Election) these two documents had significant contributions to the theory of voting pre-dating other's contributions by over 500 years.
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Spain, 1p, 1963 Scott: 1197 A296 |
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Andorra, 20, 1987 Scott: |
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Spain, 1.30, 2016 Scott: |