After the Ordered Universe workshop on the De iride, Cecilia Panti and Giles Gasper will be delivering a talk to the Durham Institute of Advanced Study Seminar, as part of that Institute’s annual theme focused on Light. As a contribution to a seminars series on the History and Future of Artificial Light organised by Dr Chris Dent in theContinue reading “Artificial Light in the Middle Ages”
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New Ordered Universe publication – JOSA 31 (2014)
We’re very pleased to announce the publication of our latest collaborative investigation into the rainbow, ‘Color-coordinate system from a 13th-century account of rainbows’ which has come out in the Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 31 (2014), A341-A349. The article explores colour within the 3D framework set out in Grosseteste’s De colore and now links the axesContinue reading “New Ordered Universe publication – JOSA 31 (2014)”
Ordered Universe at the Royal Society
Tom, Hannah and Giles have been invited to give a public lecture at the Royal Society, London, which will take place this coming Friday, 1.00-2.00 in the History of Science series. The talk is free and open to the public – doors open at 12.30 and places are issued on a first come first servedContinue reading “Ordered Universe at the Royal Society”
Durham Workshop: Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th March
The third in the workshop series funded through the AHRC Network Grant ‘Lost Legacies and a Living Past’ takes place tomorrow and Tuesday. We are looking forward to welcoming all of our visitors to Durham, Jack Cunningham from Bishop Grosseteste University, Cecilia Panti, Sigbjørn Sønnesyn, as well as Hannah and the rest of the DurhamContinue reading “Durham Workshop: Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th March”
2014 Grosseteste Conference
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A Medieval MultiVerse – Nature Comment
We have had a busy few weeks on the Ordered Universe project, setting up the next workshop which takes place in the coming week (more to come on that), a public lecture to the Royal Society (more to come on that too!) and publications. The whole research team is very pleased that a comment-article, commissionedContinue reading “A Medieval MultiVerse – Nature Comment”
Do we live in a universe at all: some thoughts from Mark Robson
The Durham Grosseteste Project involves looking at the works of Bishop Grosseteste and trying to understand his ideas in the light of the conceptual background of an ordered universe. Grosseteste understood himself to be playing a role in a divinely ordered hierarchy of creatures. He was within a Grand Plan, a teleologically ordered whole whoseContinue reading “Do we live in a universe at all: some thoughts from Mark Robson”
The week, or so, after Christmas: Hannah at Cambridge
Hannah is talking this afternoon, 9th January, at 4.30 to the Cambridge Philosophical Society, part of a day devoted to Colour in all of its diversity of meaning, aspects and applications. Hannah’s talk will be on the De iride mapping she has been leading: ‘Colours of the rainbow: A three-dimensional colour space from the thirteenth century’ TheContinue reading “The week, or so, after Christmas: Hannah at Cambridge”
Colour, Rainbows, Crombie and the Ordered Universe
Hannah and I enjoyed the hospitality of the Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science at the weekend, in Oxford and very much enjoyed presenting the Ordered Universe project to their members and other attendees. It was lovely to meet Geoffrey Hindley, involved with the Society from its inception, and all the moreContinue reading “Colour, Rainbows, Crombie and the Ordered Universe”
The Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science – Saturday 14th December
Hannah and Giles have been invited to talk to The Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science, in two weeks time, on Saturday, 14 December at 2:00 pm. We’ll be talking about the project, under the title: “Medieval and Modern Science: Robert Grosseteste (c.1170-1253) in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective”. The recent work on the DeContinue reading “The Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science – Saturday 14th December”