Richard Bower’s public lecture from the last Ordered Universe workshop in Lincoln, from the Chapter House of the Cathedral is now available. All those that were there and want to revisit the lecture will now be able to, and for those who were not able to be there, this is a real treat. De luce, the Grosseteste Equations, Dark Matter and Dark Energy all compared and contrasted! Enjoy.Continue reading “Richard Bower: Public Lecture – Comparative Cosmologies”
Cantus Infirmus in action
One of the more unexpected highlights of the workshop at Lincoln was the first public performance of some Perotin by the enthusiastic amongst the research group. After Richard’s lecture we made our way to the Grosseteste chapel, and with a short collect from David Thomson (Grosseteste expert and, by day, Bishop of Huntingdon), we made our musical offering. Continue reading “Cantus Infirmus in action”
Comparative Cosmologies: Robert Grosseteste and Modern Cosmology
Richard Bower’s public lecture during the Lincoln, Bishop Grosseteste University, workshop took place in the Chapter House, almost directly underneath a 19th century window of Grosseteste in reforming action. Having given the Grosseteste Day lecture in October 2013, this was a return Lincoln visit for Richard. His new lecture took the audience from the medieval universe, and the interpretation of Grosseteste’s De luce, to the modern universe and its interpretation through models and observation. Continue reading “Comparative Cosmologies: Robert Grosseteste and Modern Cosmology”
Lincoln Workshop in Pictures
It is now just over six weeks since the workshop on the Liberal Arts in Lincoln; thoughts are still buzzing about the discussions and the treatises, and what the nature of inter-disciplinary research actually consists of, as well as the delight in new discoveries, learning and having one’s eyes well and truly opened. Here are a few photographic memories of the workshop: just seeing them jogs the mind to dwell further on what Grosseteste’s texts meant and what they represent.Continue reading “Lincoln Workshop in Pictures”
Can Science be more like Music? An Experiment with Light and Song
I thought that readers of the Ordered Universe blog might like to follow up our musings on Grosseteste’s theologically and physically inspired ideas on sound and the healing powers of music with a more contemporary take on Science and Music, originally posted on my Faith and Wisdom in Science blog…
(Medieval) Science and some Spin-Off Contemplations about Ethics and Interdisciplinarity
During the introductory session on the Liberal Arts and modern scientific methodologies, Giles posed the question to the group whether failure of a scientific theory could ever be due to moral rather than intellectual failure. Whilst Giles is the one to turn to if you’re interested in the motivation behind this question, I’d like to share some thoughts on some of the comments that ensued.Continue reading “(Medieval) Science and some Spin-Off Contemplations about Ethics and Interdisciplinarity”
Education Revisited – Lessons to Learn from the Medieval Curriculum
In the De artibus liberalibus (On the Liberal Arts), Grosseteste positions the Liberal Arts as having their proper, natural place in scholarly thought and the educational curriculum. In the set of the seven Liberal Arts, the so called trivium of grammar, logic and rhetoric is complemented by the mathematical arts, that is, the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. Continue reading “Education Revisited – Lessons to Learn from the Medieval Curriculum”
Living in an Ordered Universe
The De artibus liberalibus (On the Liberal Arts) has felt somewhat different from the three treatises that the Ordered Universe group had looked at before. Unlike the De colore, the De iride, the De luce and the De generatione sonorum, the De artibus liberalibus isn’t primarily aimed at elucidating a phenomenon of natural order – be this colour, the rainbow, the cosmos, or sound.[1] Instead of focusing on aspects of the natural world, the De artibus liberalibus offers a justification for the foundational structure of scholarship and education that was around at Grosseteste’s times: the seven Liberal Arts.Continue reading “Living in an Ordered Universe”
Robert Grosseteste as Bishop of Lincoln: The Episcopal Rolls, 1235-1253
A wonderful volume which will show pastoral care in action, in an integrated and intellectually coherent way.