Robert Grosseteste and the pursuit of religious and scientific learning in the middle ages. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jack P. Cunningham, Mark Hocknull, Editors.
• Other Names: Cunningham, Jack, 1964-; Hocknull, Mark; International Robert Grosseteste Conference, 3rd
• Contents: Grosseteste's Hexaemeron: the Order and Beauty of the Universe.- Medieval lessons for modern challenges to Science and Religion.- Greco- Arabic precursors of Grosseteste in the science of Optics.- The form of Corporeity and the Nomological image of Nature.- Religion, Philosophy and Science: Roger Bacon's Opus maius.- Can Science and Religion meet over their subject-matter? –a thirteenth-Century Example.- A Theoretical fulcrum: Robert Grosseteste on Infinitude.- A Mathematical Interpretation of Grosseteste's De luce.- Medicine for the Body and Soul: Healthy living in the age of Grosseteste.- God as being and goodness: Transcendentals in Grosseteste's commentary on the De divinis nominibus.- Colours of the Rainbow: Robert Grosseteste's three-dimensional colour space.- Grosseteste's Cosmogony and Lemaitre's proposal of the Big Bang.- The theological use of science and philosophy in Robert Grosseteste and Adam Marsh according to Roger Bacon: the 'case studies' of angelic movements and Rainbows.- Faith produced by great knowledge, or knowledge acquired through strong Faith? Grosseteste's life, deeds, education and Study.- The king, the clerotes and the tyrant: how Grosseteste brought Aristotle to the Parish.- Robert Grosseteste and the impact of the Lateran Council IV.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (306 pages)
• Subjects: 189.4; History; Religion and science -- History -- To 1500; Philosophy -- Mind & Body; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- Medieval; Science -- Cosmology; Science -- Physics; Philosophy of mind; Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600; Relativity physics; History of science; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy, medieval; Science -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319334684
• Related ISBNs: 9783319334660
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.