We have three new members of the team joining us for the summer projects, and beyond: Adam Harries, Nick Holliman and Dorothy Warren. Nick founded the Durham Visualization Laboratory and is a computer scientist specialising in digital imaging: he and Adam, also a computer scientist, will be working with Giles and Richard, and the restContinue reading “New Team Members”
Author Archives: Ordered Universe
Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu: New Editions and Studies
Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu: New Editions and Studies. via Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu: New Editions and Studies. This wonderful new collection of articles on Grosseteste includes a wide variety of the subjects on which Grosseteste wrote: pastoral works, theology and natural philosophy. Articles are accompanied with critical editions and translations ofContinue reading “Robert Grosseteste and His Intellectual Milieu: New Editions and Studies”
Hannah Smithson speaking at Liverpool Hope Foundation Hour, Wed. 10th 1pm
Those of you lucky enough to be in or around Liverpool this week can catch Hannah giving a Foundation Hour talk at Liverpool Hope University, on Wednesday 10th April, 1pm in the Eden Lecture Theatre. Hannah will be talking on: Foundation Hour – Medieval Science: Colour Decoded by the 13th Century Scholar Robert Grosseteste. http://www.hope.ac.uk/eventsCalendar/t4.do?lang=en&dt=d.en.19973&f=month&d=03/04/2013&sd=Wednesday,10April2013&ac=*
Ordered Universe Workshops
A record of the main collaborative workshops we have held, from the birth of the project to read scientific works of the High Middle Ages in an interdisciplinary forum, to the most recent focused sessions on the treatise on the rainbow. The process of team-building is a long one, and involves forging bonds of trust,Continue reading “Ordered Universe Workshops”
Ordered Universe Talks to Date
A run-down of the public and research presentations various members of the team have given on the Grosseteste Science project over the last two years or so.
The Durham Grosseteste project…in the words of some of its team members
and now this one, Paul Ging in conversation with Dr Greti Dinkova-Bruun These conversations between Giles and Greti were recorded during Greti’s Michaelmas Term in Durham 2012, as Senior Research Fellow at the Durham Institute of Advanced Study. Amongst the many things she accomplished was the bulk of the editorial work on the De iride….preliminaryContinue reading “The Durham Grosseteste project…in the words of some of its team members”
Coverage in the New Scientist
The De colore project was covered in the New Scientist, last year, by Michael Brook: details are below… ORDERED UNIVERSE NEW SCIENTIST
The Sky at Night…and the Grosseteste Project
The coverage of the Grosseteste Science project from the Sky at Night can be found below: the Medieval Big Bang in all its form (pun intended!). The general interest in the project is extremely welcome and encouraging. The excitement of these discussions is palpable. Sky at night 2013 De luce (1)
Ordered Universe Sessions at Porto
These are the details of the three formal sessions we have organised for the FIDEM Congress in Porto: focusing on the treatises on light and on colour. Each session has a mingling (to use a Grossetestian phrase) of scientific and humanities based scholars; all of which are needed to convey the richness and depth ofContinue reading “Ordered Universe Sessions at Porto”
Thomson’s Catalogue of Grosseteste’s Works Reprinted
Essential reading!