Robert Grosseteste: The Greatest Mind You’ve Never Heard Of Was A Medieval Bishop

Sunday, June 7, 2015 - 17:20 in Psychology & Sociology

There was something unusual about our recent research collaboration on the science of light, colors and the perception of rainbows: one member of the team wrote his best science in the 1220s.The Ordered Universe Project sees humanities scholars and scientists come together to carefully read the 13th century scientific treatises of the English polymath Robert Grosseteste. It was set up in the hope that the work’s technical content might receive a deeper analysis than previous scholarship. read more

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