Our next project symposium takes place in Lincoln, and we’re delighted to be back in the convivial surroundings of Bishop Grosseteste University, hosted by Jack Cunningham and the BGU Ordered Universe chapter. As part of the symposium, which features Grosseteste’s treatise On Lines and Angles, On the Nature of Places, alongside On the Supercelestial MotionsContinue reading “Public Lecture in Lincoln”
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Light, Colour, and the Cosmos in the Medieval and Modern Worlds
OxNet students experienced life at a Russell Group University by attending a two-day residential at Durham University as part of the OxNet programme, focusing around three key elements of Bishop Grosseteste’s treatises – colour, light, and cosmos.
Aristotle’s Physics in Paris and Oxford, in Rome
News of a day-conference taking place in Rome, at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, on Aristotle’s Physics in Paris and Oxford in the course of the thirteenth century. Organised by Professor Cecilia Panti (Tor Vergata) speakers include Nicola Polloni of the Humboldt University, both Ordered Universe regulars. With Bacon, Albert the Great, Grosseteste, andContinue reading “Aristotle’s Physics in Paris and Oxford, in Rome”
OxNet North East: The History Of History
OxNet North East: The History Of History. The most recent OxNet session, led by historian Giles Gasper questioned what ‘History’ actually is, and more specifically how we really know things happened in the past.
OxNet North East: Modern Creativity
OxNet North East: Modern Creativity. The most recent OxNet session, led by artist Colin Rennie, focused around creativity, and what this actually means.
OxNet North East: Questions and Answers
Seminar 4 of the OxNet series was focused around Translation and Philosophy. Students prepared for the session by completing reading on medieval translators and works that were translated from Arabic into Latin.
UCL – Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste
Giles Gasper (Durham University) will be giving a talk later today to the Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance Seminer at University College, London, 6.15-7.15 on ‘The Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste’. Giles will be talking about the work of the Ordered Universe project, its collaborative research methods, and larger questions concerning the whole corpus of scientificContinue reading “UCL – Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste”
Horizon and Zenith at Light Up Poole
Zenith playing on the interior of St James’s Church in Poole. It takes inspiration from medieval astronomy, Islamicate and European, and the notion of the zenith, a point directly above a particular location – the ‘zenith of the head’ as medieval authors put it,
Medieval and Modern Tides – Light Up Poole Festival 2019
Last weekend, on Saturday February 23rd, Ordered Universe members Brian Tanner and Giles Gasper took part in the Light Up Poole Festival, on the UK’s south coast, in Dorset. We gave a talk to the public on the scientific works of Robert Grosseteste, in
OxNet North-East: Seeing Is Believing
The third session in the OxNet Seminar Series was run by Joshua Harvey of Oxford University and took an interdisciplinary look into colour, covering areas like psychology, mathematics and even some philosophy.