Category Archives: What we have been up to…

Images to watch the universe by….

There are accompanying images to the paper on the De luce  which are available on Youtube. They are quite mesmeric, and form something of the basis for the 3D Visualisation, which is to come this year (and we are looking forward to that very much indeed). On that score Nick Holliman from the University of York isContinue reading “Images to watch the universe by….”

Recreating a Medieval Universe – the De Luce

We are very excited to announce the full scientific analysis of Grosseteste’s De luce  – ‘On Light’ will be published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A  within the next month. A pre-submission version is available at  the Arxiv site. This takes the form of what we are calling a functional analysis of the treatise: taking Grosseteste’s account of howContinue reading “Recreating a Medieval Universe – the De Luce”

AHRC Science in Culture Guest Blog

Ordered Universe has a guest blog on the AHRC Science in Culture website. It outlines where we are up to, some reflections on the breadth of activities we have explored over the last year or so, and how these contribute to the depth of our growingacquaintance with Robert Grosseteste. More to come on the eventsContinue reading “AHRC Science in Culture Guest Blog”

Artificial Light in the Middle Ages

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”

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”

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”