The Ordered Universe Project in February 2013
Three of the team, Giles, Hannah and Tom, enjoyed the wonderful environment of the Graduate Center, CUNY, and gave a public lecture as part of the Science Initiative, at the invitation of William Bialek. The Proshansky Auditorium was a great venue, and we spoke to a large audience, to excellent questions and reactions. The three of us presented the Grosseteste project with a focus on the forthcoming edition, translation and multi-disciplinatry commentary of the De colore, and on the De luce. The welcome was amazing, and the conversations that spun off from the main presentation stimulating and intellectually broadening. Just to prove we were there….
You should have seen the look on the faces of the people in the elevator, encountering two strangers intent on photographing the inside. We covered our tracks by saying it was a research project with international ramifications. I think we got away with it.