The question ‘who was the first scientist’ crops up regularly in discussions connected with Grosseteste, a debate made famous by Crombie, with the strong rejoinders of Alexander Koyré. More often than not the question should be refined as ‘who was the first scientist in what has come to be defined as the western tradition’? There areContinue reading “Physics World – Who was the first scientist?”
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Nature Physics Commentary – All the Colours of the Rainbow
The latest Ordered Universe publication is out; a second piece in Nature, this time in Nature Physics. ‘All the Colours of the Rainbow’, which was principally authored by Hannah Smithson and Tom McLeish, with Giles Gasper, provides the outline of the way in which Grosseteste’s thought on colour moves between the De colore ‘On Colour’ and the De iride ‘On the Rainbow’, andContinue reading “Nature Physics Commentary – All the Colours of the Rainbow”
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3rd International Grosseteste Conference: Day 2
The second day of the conference, and another intriguing array of papers, building the theme of how scientific and theological instincts and interests cohere (or did not), in Grosseteste and his contemporaries. The first parallel sessions included, Robert Ball on readers of Grosseteste on the Psalms, and Philippa Hoskin on the use of Aristotle inContinue reading “3rd International Grosseteste Conference: Day 2”
2014 Conference: International Grosseteste Society
The next International Robert Grosseteste Society conference takes place 18-20 July, in Lincoln, organised by Jack Cunningham at Bishop Grosseteste University. It promises to be a wonderful event, under the theme of: Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle-Ages Several core members of the Ordered Universe project will beContinue reading “2014 Conference: International Grosseteste Society”
Ordered Universe joins The Conversation
For those of you that know, and those that don’t, The Conversation, is a new journalism project to promote academic discourse and debate. The Ordered Universe has posted a report and discussion piece, highlighting the collaborative nature of the project, and the surprising and stimulating results of that collaboration. We have put a focus on theContinue reading “Ordered Universe joins The Conversation”
Royal Society Talk online and available
An update to say that the Royal Society talk is now available on the Royal Society website: in audio and with some of the slides that we showed. The De luce article will be out soon in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, and the general interest in the work of the team, spearheaded inContinue reading “Royal Society Talk online and available”
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”
New Ordered Universe publication – JOSA 31 (2014)
We’re very pleased to announce the publication of our latest collaborative investigation into the rainbow, ‘Color-coordinate system from a 13th-century account of rainbows’ which has come out in the Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 31 (2014), A341-A349. The article explores colour within the 3D framework set out in Grosseteste’s De colore and now links the axesContinue reading “New Ordered Universe publication – JOSA 31 (2014)”
Ordered Universe at the Royal Society
Tom, Hannah and Giles have been invited to give a public lecture at the Royal Society, London, which will take place this coming Friday, 1.00-2.00 in the History of Science series. The talk is free and open to the public – doors open at 12.30 and places are issued on a first come first servedContinue reading “Ordered Universe at the Royal Society”