A very interesting piece from Michael Brooks, in the New Statesman, which highlights the creative aspects of the Ordered Universe collaboration, both in terms of critical thinking, but also in terms of the way in which imaginative responses to the challenges of economic and social life can provide more than a mechanistic approach. Learning toContinue reading “Critical Thinking, Critical Practice”
Monthly Archives: March 2014
De luce and avant-garde filmmakers in New York
A very interesting project, about which we’re intrigued to find out more.
Royal Society Talk online and available
An update to say that the Royal Society talk is now available on the Royal Society website: in audio and with some of the slides that we showed. The De luce article will be out soon in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, and the general interest in the work of the team, spearheaded inContinue reading “Royal Society Talk online and available”
GROSSETESTE AND THE PURSUIT OF RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC LEARNING
Set to be a wonderful conference!
Portuguese coverage of the Ordered Universe
I’m delighted to forward coverage of the project by Ana Gerschenfeld, Science Journalist for the Portuguese broadsheet newspaper, PÚBLICO. We are very pleased to participate in this wider outreach of what we are up to, especially on the back of the forthcoming study of the De luce. It is interesting to see the coupling ofContinue reading “Portuguese coverage of the Ordered Universe”
Images to watch the universe by….
There are accompanying images to the paper on the De luce which are available on Youtube. They are quite mesmeric, and form something of the basis for the 3D Visualisation, which is to come this year (and we are looking forward to that very much indeed). On that score Nick Holliman from the University of York isContinue reading “Images to watch the universe by….”
Medieval Theories – New Interpretations – New Scientist
The New Scientist has a new piece on the De luce paper just out. A lovely discussion of the project and some great comments from Avi Loeb at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge. This is our second feature in the magazine following Michael Brook’s discussion of Grosseteste’s thought on colour. And for many more, we hope, as we explore Grosseteste’sContinue reading “Medieval Theories – New Interpretations – New Scientist”
It’s out – Nature Comment
Read and listen to Tom’s comment in Nature and the accompanying Podcast – Arts and Humanities with Scientific research, and the tremendous potential in cross-disciplinary investigation.
Recreating a Medieval Universe – the De Luce
We are very excited to announce the full scientific analysis of Grosseteste’s De luce – ‘On Light’ will be published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A within the next month. A pre-submission version is available at the Arxiv site. This takes the form of what we are calling a functional analysis of the treatise: taking Grosseteste’s account of howContinue reading “Recreating a Medieval Universe – the De Luce”
AHRC Science in Culture Guest Blog
Ordered Universe has a guest blog on the AHRC Science in Culture website. It outlines where we are up to, some reflections on the breadth of activities we have explored over the last year or so, and how these contribute to the depth of our growingacquaintance with Robert Grosseteste. More to come on the eventsContinue reading “AHRC Science in Culture Guest Blog”