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    Robert Grosseteste (/ˈɡroʊstɛst/ GROHS-test; Latin: Robertus Grosseteste; c. 1168-70 – 8 or 9 October 1253), also known as Robert Greathead or Robert...
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  • Arabic and Greek texts and commentaries. Robert Grosseteste's commentary on the Posterior Analytics places Grosseteste among the first scholastic thinkers...
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    was renamed Bishop Grosseteste College. The college took its name from Robert Grosseteste (also known as Robert Greathead and Robert of Lincoln), a 13th-century...
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    advocates of the modern scientific method, along with his teacher Robert Grosseteste. Bacon applied the empirical method of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) to...
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    Wasserstein, D. J. (1995). "Grosseteste, the Jews and medieval Christian Hebraism". In McEvoy, James (ed.). Robert Grosseteste: new perspectives on his thought...
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    carried on well past Aquinas's time, such as English scholastics Robert Grosseteste and his student Roger Bacon, and for instance by Francisco Suárez...
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  • works of earlier philosophers such as John Duns Scotus (1265–1308), Robert Grosseteste (1175–1253), Maimonides (Moses ben-Maimon, 1138–1204), and even Aristotle...
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  • an English Franciscan, scholar and theologian. Marsh became, after Robert Grosseteste, "...the most eminent master of England." He was born about 1200 in...
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    great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method...
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    they were introduced into the Western world through the agency of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, whose Latin translation of the work immediately...
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    Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, Robert Grosseteste, Christopher Clavius, Nicolas Steno, Athanasius Kircher, Giovanni...
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    of Laon Hildegard of Bingen Hugh of Saint Victor Dominic de Guzmán Robert Grosseteste Francis of Assisi Anthony of Padua Beatrice of Nazareth Bonaventure...
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    This included later European scholars and fellow polymaths, from Robert Grosseteste and Leonardo da Vinci to Johannes Kepler. The translation of The Book...
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    a number of scholars in Christian Europe including: Roger Bacon, Robert Grosseteste, Witelo, Giambattista della Porta, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei...
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  • local cathedral. These could sometimes become unruly, as recorded by Robert Grosseteste (Letter 22.7): In each and every church you should strictly prohibit...
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    including by Bede (7th century), Peter Abelard (12th century), and Robert Grosseteste (13th century). The genre extended into early modern times with the...
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    between various colors effectively made color space two-dimensional. Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253) proposed an effectively three-dimensional model of color...
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    the theories of later Catholic theologians in the medieval period (Robert Grosseteste, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus and William of Ockham). During the Protestant...
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  • Avicenna) censures Aristotelian method of induction. 1220–1235 – Robert Grosseteste, an English scholastic philosopher, theologian and later the Bishop...
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    works of Aristotle had reached the West. In the early 13th century, Robert Grosseteste used Abelard's methods of analysis and added the use of observation...
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    Cosmologies of Bishop Grosseteste". In Temple, Nicholas; Hendrix, John Shannon; Frost, Christian (eds.). Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral:...
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  • an invention of the musician'. The work of bishop and philosopher, Robert Grosseteste, embodied these assumptions as it used mathematics to explore harmony...
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    El-Bizri, 'Grosseteste's Meteorological Optics: Explications of the Phenomenon of the Rainbow after Ibn al-Haytham', in Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit...
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    al-Haytham's Book of Optics was translated into Latin and studied by Robert Grosseteste. His work on light was continued by Roger Bacon, who wrote in his...
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    Ibn al-Haytham and Witelo as well as the "species" of Roger Bacon, Robert Grosseteste and Johannes Kepler. In 1637 he published a theory of the refraction...
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  • life. He has been described as one of the “metaphysicians of light” (Robert Grosseteste was another). He was a contemporary of William of Auvergne, Bishop...
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    medieval philosophy, particularly the work of John Scotus Eriugena and Robert Grosseteste. He also wrote about the philosophy of friendship. McEvoy undertook...
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  • Ptolemy's Almagest as well as Euclid's Elements from Arabic to Latin. Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253), Bishop of Lincoln, was the central character of the English...
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    against a house falleth."). The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica quotes Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253) saying "It is written that united we stand and divided we...
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    Gaon, Al-Ghazali and Immanuel Kant, among others. English theologian Robert Grosseteste explored the nature of matter and the cosmos in his 1225 treatise...
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