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Portuguese coverage of the Ordered Universe

I’m delighted to forward  coverage of the project by Ana Gerschenfeld, Science Journalist for the Portuguese broadsheet newspaper, PÚBLICO. We are very pleased to participate in this wider outreach of what we are up to, especially on the back of the forthcoming study of the De luce. It is interesting to see the coupling ofContinue reading “Portuguese coverage of the Ordered Universe”

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”

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”

New Season, Updates and Events

After the intellectual delights of Porto, we have been busy, variously, on developing the strands of the Durham Grosseteste project. Work on the De luce edition, translation and multi-disciplinary volume is well advanced, and there are other publication projects in the pipe-line, which we’ll post separately on. The main work of the summer has been on theContinue reading “New Season, Updates and Events”

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”

Ordered Universe Sessions at Porto

These are the details of the three formal sessions we have organised for the FIDEM Congress in Porto: focusing on the treatises on light and on colour. Each session has a mingling (to use a Grossetestian phrase) of scientific and humanities based scholars; all of which are needed to convey the richness and depth ofContinue reading “Ordered Universe Sessions at Porto”