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Grosseteste

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Grosseteste [ˈgrəʊsˌtɛst]
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(Biographies / Grosseteste, Robert (?1175-1253) M, English, RELIGION: clergyman, MISC: scholar) Robert. ?1175-1253, English prelate and scholar; bishop of Lincoln (1235-53). He attacked ecclesiastical abuses and wrote commentaries on Aristotle and treatises on theology, philosophy, and science


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The names of Jordanus Nemorarius, Jean Buridan, John Philoponus, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, Nicholas of Oresme, and Leon Battista Alberti may not be known to many, even to many contemporary scientists.
Perhaps not surprisingly, this epistemological doubt--now become doctrine--is the strain of Catholicism that we find dominant a half-century later among the main rivals of Parisian Thomism--namely, the English Franciscans at Oxford, England: Robert Grosseteste (ca.
You'd never guess that "scholastic obsessives" such as Robert Grosseteste or Roger Bacon were crucial to the construction of modern scientific methodology, or that the work of Gregor Mendel--an Augustinian priest--was the wellspring of modern genetics.
 
 
 
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