It took me some time to realise how rare truly interdisciplinary work is at the research level. For me as an undergraduate student, cross-subject talk within friendship groups is something that I have always taken for granted. Since I have been introduced to the Ordered Universe Project I have learned firstly that only few scholarsContinue reading “Interdisciplinarity – chances and challenges”
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How Grosseteste could help in conveying a ‘grasp of scientific practice’
In recent years science education has moved progressively further away from teaching students scientific facts towards conveying an understanding of how science works, or of the Nature of Science (NOS). One attempt in this respect has been to define a set of necessary and sufficient criteria that distinguish good from bad scientific inquiry, and toContinue reading “How Grosseteste could help in conveying a ‘grasp of scientific practice’”
Workshop 2: Medieval Science and the Modern Curriculum: Part 3c ADVANCED SECONDARY
Our third and final group, took what appeared to be a slightly different approach to the other two, but one that ended up with a great deal of continuity with the others. Led by Per, the group involved Andrew Powney from Ampleforth College, Steven Burdon from St Bede’s Lanchester, and Mark Robson from St RobertContinue reading “Workshop 2: Medieval Science and the Modern Curriculum: Part 3c ADVANCED SECONDARY”
Medicine, Science and a Porto Perspective
I first heard about The Ordered Universe Project in a seminar led by Giles Gasper and Tom McLeish at Durham last autumn. As someone who specialises in medieval medicine and gender, I was initially fascinated by their willingness to combine medieval science with modern physics, yet I was unaware of what contribution (if any) IContinue reading “Medicine, Science and a Porto Perspective”
Why the scientists?
At the heart of the Ordered Universe Project is the interdisciplinary collaboration between medievalists and scientists. In this way light is shed onto Grosseteste’s scientific work from very different angles, and this allows for an all-around and in-depth elucidation of his writings. That medievalists contribute to our understanding of medieval science seems straightforward and notContinue reading “Why the scientists?”
Porto Conference Thoughts and Reflections, from a postgraduate perspective, Part One
A few months ago Giles Gasper kindly invited me to attend the FIDEM conference in Porto as part of the Grosseteste project. I gladly accepted the invitation and started to read through the material that I was sent. The Grosseteste project had interested me ever since I heard about it; the idea of collaboration betweenContinue reading “Porto Conference Thoughts and Reflections, from a postgraduate perspective, Part One”
De colore – impressions from a first-time, non-medieval, reader
I started my reading about Grosseteste and his scientific works with ‘The Dimensions of Colour’ on the De colore. Although when reading the translation I couldn’t picture Grosseteste’s model in my head, I was baffled by its complexity and sophistication. Such an abstract account of the phenomenon of colour was certainly not what I expectedContinue reading “De colore – impressions from a first-time, non-medieval, reader”
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)
Durham Grosseteste Project in Portugal
So, our next engagement as a team will be the FIDEM congress in Porto. The congress gathers around 400-500 medievalists of various sorts and meets every 5 years. FIDEM itself is a network of institutes for medieval studies, with individual as well as institutional membership, and has been running since 1987. Greti sits on theContinue reading “Durham Grosseteste Project in Portugal”
Photos from the New York Graduate Center…
Here we are then, the three presenters… A wonderful occasion, and a really good set of questions: was Grosseteste a loner or a collaborator, how do the scientific and theological texts work together, how were the key terms in the De colore translated, what are the attractions of the deeper past to modern scientists. Science, asContinue reading “Photos from the New York Graduate Center…”