The mental and material laboratory of 13th century science: an update from Clive Carol Harrison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Christ Church Clive Siviour, Engineering Science, Pembroke College Hannah Smithson, Experimental Psychology, Pembroke College Giles Gasper, Department of History, Durham University The overwhelming misconception of modern science graduates is that prior to the development ofContinue reading “Update: the Mental and Material Laboratory of 13th Century Science”
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Our Latest Scientific Collaborator was a Medieval Bishop
Our Latest Scientific Collaborator was a Medieval Bishop. Read Tom’s full version of the Ordered Universe Conversation article written in tandem with our presentation at the Cheltenham Science Festival. The transmission of ideas between cultures within the ancient and medieval periods, as well as within the modern, are key aspects to the whole project. TheyContinue reading “Our Latest Scientific Collaborator was a Medieval Bishop”
Travelling Wisdom – Ordered Universe
Earlier this year in May, Ordered Universe team members participated in a extremely interesting conference organised at the University of Southern Denmark, in Odense. The theme of ‘Travelling Wisdom: Medieval Science in the North c.1000-1500’, proved irresistible, especially when the Ordered Universe team, led by Brian Tanner, was invited to make the opening keynote presentation byContinue reading “Travelling Wisdom – Ordered Universe”
AHRC-Ordered Universe at the Cheltenham Science Festival
It was a enormous privilege to represent the AHRC at the Cheltenham Science Festival. From the first application to take the Ordered Universe project to the Festival, to the intensive media and presentation workshop at Polaris House, and then to working with the AHRC and Festival co-ordinators, it has been an exciting and supportive journey. TheContinue reading “AHRC-Ordered Universe at the Cheltenham Science Festival”
Ordered Universe-AHRC at the Cheltenham Science Festival…in pictures
Tom, Hannah and Giles had an absolutely wonderful time at the Cheltenham Science Festival. As part of the AHRC partnership with the Festival the Ordered Universe presented Grosseteste’s scientific works and the collaboration between modern scientists and medievalists to an engaged and packed audience. Chaired by Professor Robert Winston, the talk and question and answerContinue reading “Ordered Universe-AHRC at the Cheltenham Science Festival…in pictures”
Cheltenham Science Festival…Today!
The Ordered Universe will be presenting later today at the Cheltenham Science Festival. Tom, Hannah and Giles will talk with Lord Professor Robert Winston, and with the audience on the project, Grosseteste and Science and Humanities in collaboration. The project was selected by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of its partnership with theContinue reading “Cheltenham Science Festival…Today!”
Richard Bower: Public Lecture – Comparative Cosmologies
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, theContinue reading “Richard Bower: Public Lecture – Comparative Cosmologies”
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,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 areContinue reading “Lincoln Workshop in Pictures”
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 –Continue reading “Living in an Ordered Universe”