Robert Grosseteste
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Robert Grosseteste, also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents in
An early 14th-century portrait of Grosseteste
A 19th-century portrait of Robert Grosseteste in stained glass
Grosseteste's tomb and chapel in Lincoln Cathedral
Optic studies from Roger Bacon's De multiplicatione specierum. The diagram shows light being refracted by a spherical glass container full of water.
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is a constituent of the apocryphal scriptures connected with the Bible. It is believed to be a pseudepigraphical work of the dying commands of the twelve sons o
Robert Grosseteste
…Judaism, and spread the accusation that Jews had purposefully suppressed prophetic knowledge of the coming of Christ, through his translation of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. There is very little direct evidence about Grosseteste's education. He may have received a liberal arts education at Lincoln and appears as a witness…
A 1917 edition of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.