Thursday and the team kept at it, moving through the rest of the De luce, through the creation of the 9 celestial spheres (they are not named by Grosseteste but presumably followed the pattern 1 First Mover, 2 Fixed Stars, 3 Saturn, 4 Jupiter, 5 Mars, 6 Sun, 7 Venus, 8 Mercury, 9 Moon) and thenContinue reading “Porto Experiences Thursday 27th June: De luce, Education and the History of Science”
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Porto experiences: Wednesday 26th June: De luce
Wednesday 26th June provided another intense day for discussion and reading. The morning session of the conference featured papers by Cecilia Panti, Neil Lewis and Brian Tanner, chaired by Pietro Rossi. Cecilia presented a detailed exposition of Grosseteste’s use of mathematical sequences within the De luce, especially in its first half. The infinite multiplication of formContinue reading “Porto experiences: Wednesday 26th June: De luce”
Porto experiences: arrivals and first sessions
So the Porto conference and workshops were upon us, eighteen members of the Lost Legacies Network, the Ordered Universe Durham Grosseteste Project set off for Porto from their various locations: Durham, Oxford, Oban, Munster, Washington D.C., Toronto, Montreal, Rome and Turin. Flying via Manchester, myself, Per Kind, Dorothy Warren, Lydia Harris and Sam Sargeant metContinue reading “Porto experiences: arrivals and first sessions”
Porto, O, Porto: Congress Programme and Plans
Well, the Porto meeting of the FIDEM congress is just over a week away. Papers are being finished, the panels are all organised, travel arrangements in place. The programme for the congress is here: Program_Secrets. We are very grateful to Jose Mereinhos and his team for all of their efforts, and especially in accommodating the Ordered UniverseContinue reading “Porto, O, Porto: Congress Programme and Plans”
Greti at the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences/Canadian Society of Medievalists
Greti Dinkova-Bruun, one of the core team members for the Ordered Universe/Grosseteste Science project gave a paper in early June to the 2013 Congress of of the Humanities and Social Sciences/Canadian Society of Medievalists June 1-8, at the University of Victoria in Canada. The session was a roundtable on Grosseteste’s letter collection, and also to honourContinue reading “Greti at the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences/Canadian Society of Medievalists”
Grosseteste in 3D
Grosseteste’s De luce, on which the team has been working for the last 18 months or so (and in the case of Neil and Cecilia considerably longer) explains the creation of the Aristotelian universe, and the series of celestial spheres, contrasting the perfect and stable universe above the moon, with the more unpredictable regions beneath. InContinue reading “Grosseteste in 3D”
Durham Research Breakthrough
Durham Research Breakthrough from Professor Tom McLeish.
Grosseteste project and the AHRC
The Durham Grosseteste project is supported currently by an Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) International Network Grant. The project is featured on the AHRC website in a short article by Matt Shin. We do indeed hope that Grosseteste would approve. The Network Grant has been vital to bring together the teams from across the world,Continue reading “Grosseteste project and the AHRC”
The view from Kalamazoo and a Baptism…
For those of you who were not at the annual Kalamazoo Medieval Congress (a pilgrimage for upwards of 3500 medievalists each year), the PIMS book stand sold out of copies of the Dimensions of Colour. You can order copies from PIMS or University of Toronto Press directly if you’re in North America. If you are elsewhereContinue reading “The view from Kalamazoo and a Baptism…”
A new dimension to the project: education and science learning
The Grosseteste Science project is developing a second strand of investigation, alongside the medieval and modern scientific interpretations of particular works. The second strand to the project takes the inter-disciplinary methodology and material generated on Grosseteste a stage further and involves educationalists and the teaching sector. The aim is to present Grosseteste and his world toContinue reading “A new dimension to the project: education and science learning”