Ramon Lull (circa 1232-1316), a key figure in medieval literature, was a multifaceted personality who pursued literature, philosophy, theology, and the natural sciences with passion and skill. His Treatise on Astronomy interprets the art of astrology as an abstract logic wherein delineation is at least partly reduced to a calculus of manipulating and combining letters. By this approach, Lull achieves surprisingly elegant derivations of planetary combinations, and planet/sign combinations, with a specific focus on the nature and order of the elemental triplicities. This is a facsimile edition.
Ramon Lull (circa 1232-1316), a key figure in medieval literature, was a multifaceted personality who pursued literature, philosophy, theology, and the natural sciences with passion and skill. His Treatise on Astronomy interprets the art of astrology as an abstract logic wherein delineation is at least partly reduced to a calculus of manipulating and combining letters. By this approach, Lull achieves surprisingly elegant derivations of planetary combinations, and planet/sign combinations, with a specific focus on the nature and order of the elemental triplicities. This is a facsimile edition.
Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. In February 2014, the Ukrainian people ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, prompting Russia to invade and annex the Crimean peninsula. By the start of April, Pavel Durov had given his notice, with TechCrunch saying at the time that the CEO had resisted pressure to suppress pages criticizing the Russian government. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. What distinguishes the app from competitors is its use of what's known as channels: Public or private feeds of photos and videos that can be set up by one person or an organization. The channels have become popular with on-the-ground journalists, aid workers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who broadcasts on a Telegram channel. The channels can be followed by an unlimited number of people. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks, there is no advertising on Telegram and the flow of information is not driven by an algorithm.
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