The death of alchemist Raymond Lulle

c. 1316 Raymond Lulle (Llull, Lull, or in Latin Raimundus Lullus; born c. 1232), Majorcan-born alchemist, was stoned to death by the natives of Mauritania. (Sources differ as to spelling of his name, as well as the date and cause of his death. We do know that he drafted his will on April 26, 1313.)

Lulle became an alchemist through an affair of the heart. He was in love with an extremely beautiful woman who refused to marry him. One day, when he tried again to win her heart, she showed her bosom inflamed by a cancer. He promised to cure her, and studied every book of medicine and chemistry that he could find. He cured her, and married her. After her death he attached himself to the church. The inhabitants of his home country of Majorca revere him as a martyr.
Lulle was the inventor of an early typewriting/calculating machine.

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