Robert Grosseteste and the pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle Ages

✍ Scribed by Jack P. Cunningham, Mark Hocknull (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 18
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168–1253) and does so from various perspectives, including those of a twenty-first century scientists, historians, and philosophers as well as several medievalists. In particular, it aims to contribute to our understanding of where to place Grosseteste in the history of science (against the background of the famous claim by A.C. Crombie that Grosseteste introduced what we now might call “experimental science”) and to demonstrate that the polymathic world of the medieval scholar, who recognized no dichotomy in the pursuit of scientific and philosophical/theological understanding, has much to teach those of us in the modern world who wrestle with the vexed question of the relationship between science and religion. The book comprises an edited selection of the best papers presented at the 3rd International Robert Grosseteste Conference (2014) on the theme of scientific and religious learning, especially in the work of Grosseteste.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Unity and Symmetry in the De Luce of Robert Grosseteste....Pages 3-20
Grosseteste’s Meteorological Optics: Explications of the Phenomenon of the Rainbow After Ibn al-Haytham....Pages 21-39
Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Learning in the Thirteenth Century....Pages 41-57
All the Colours of the Rainbow: Robert Grosseteste’s Three-Dimensional Colour Space....Pages 59-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Medicine for the Body and Soul: Healthy Living in the Age of Bishop Grosseteste c. 1100–1400....Pages 87-102
The Corruption of the Elements: The Science of Ritual Impurity in the Early Thirteenth Century....Pages 103-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
From Sapientes antiqui at Lincoln to the New Sapientes moderni at Paris c. 1260–1280: Roger Bacon’s Two Circles of Scholars....Pages 119-142
The Theological Use of Science in Robert Grosseteste and Adam Marsh According to Roger Bacon: The Case Study of the Rainbow....Pages 143-163
Laying the Foundation for the Nomological Image of Nature: From Corporeity in Robert Grosseteste to Species in Roger Bacon....Pages 165-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Robert Grosseteste on Transcendentals....Pages 189-208
A Theoretical Fulcrum: Robert Grosseteste on (Divine) Infinitude....Pages 209-220
The Fulfillment of Science: Nature, Creation and Man in the Hexaemeron of Robert Grosseteste....Pages 221-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Intelligo ut credam, credo ut intelligam: Robert Grosseteste Between Faith and Reason....Pages 245-261
Can Science and Religion Meet Over Their Subject-Matter? Some Thoughts on Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Discussions....Pages 263-280
Medieval Lessons for the Modern Science/Religion Debate....Pages 281-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-306

✦ Subjects

History of Science;Philosophy of Mind;Medieval Philosophy;Cosmology;History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics