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Imaging Fast Phenomena – Public Lecture now available
A short notice to record that Clive Siviour’s public lecture for the Ordered Universe is now available on the website and can be accessed here. Many thanks again to Clive for sharing his expertise and enthusiasm for his research.
‘To Loose the Bonds of Arcturus’: Ordered Universe in Montreal
On the 28th September, Giles will give a public lecture to the McGill Medievalists, supported by the Mellon Foundation. The subject will be the place of Astronomy in twelfth century schemes for Liberal Arts. Grosseteste’s De artibus liberalibus features strongly; the lecture will explore what Grosseteste sets as his task in the treatise and contextualise some of its moreContinue reading “‘To Loose the Bonds of Arcturus’: Ordered Universe in Montreal”
Listening Between the Lines
The Ordered Universe project has a new publication. Giles, Tom and Hannah wrote a reflective piece on the project, exploring the interdisciplinary nature of its aims and practice, and how the collaborative reading (and writing) work in practice. The article is now published, in Palgrave Communications, and, as open access, can be read or freely
Imaging Fast Phenomena and Chladni Plates – Public Forum
The Ordered Universe symposium on Space and Place, focusing on Grosseteste’s treatises on De sphera and the De sex differentiis, included a public lecture and forum. The lecture, delivered by Clive Siviour, explored his research into high speed photography and material deformation. The film of the lecture will be added to the website shortly. Given in the Williams LibraryContinue reading “Imaging Fast Phenomena and Chladni Plates – Public Forum”
Grosseteste on Space and Place
The latest in the series of Ordered Universe symposia took place last week, between 1st and 3rd September. We gathered in Durham once more, in the hospitable surroundings of St John’s College, to examine two of Grosseteste’s treatises, and review progress on those now in the publication roster (on which more soon). The meetingContinue reading “Grosseteste on Space and Place”
Tumblr Account for Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly has its own Tumblr site for posts and images, from the Creative Collaboration Seminars, other meetings and from participants as inspiration takes them. Set up by Alan Fentiman (to whom the project is very grateful), the site incorporates an interactive record of the collaborations that from the project. We hope that you enjoy the pictures,Continue reading “Tumblr Account for Through a Glass Darkly”
Through a Glass Darkly: Making with Glass
The second creative collaboration seminars for the Through a Glass Darkly project took place on 31st August, with a return visit for Ordered Universe team members to the National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland. This time, however, it was the turn of the scientists and mediaevalists to try their hands at working with glass. We did so, withContinue reading “Through a Glass Darkly: Making with Glass”
Moulding Glass
The second in a series of creative collaboration seminars between the Ordered Universe project and the National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, takes place tomorrow. Teams from both units will meet, this time the OU participants will be introduced to sand-casting and glass-cutting. Photographs and video of the results will be posted, so watch this space!
Podcast in Physics World
During the Ordered Universe session at the 2015 Cheltenham Science Festival, with Tom McLeish, Hannah Smithson and Giles Gasper talking about Grosseteste: the Greatest Mind You’ve Never Heard Of…, we were interviewed by Margaret Harris, of Physics World. This, with subsequent interviews at Durham, is the basis of a podcast, now available on the Physics World website here.Continue reading “Podcast in Physics World”