Daily Medieval

Roger Bacon was born about 1219 into a wealthy family in England. He attended classes at Oxford University, where he learned a love of scien...

Back here we spoke about the manufacture of glass, but when and where did glass come to be used for enhancing and correcting vision? P...

Anthemius of Tralles (c.474-c.557) was mentioned as one of the builders (along with Isidore of Miletus) of the new Hagia Sophia . We know m...

For a long time, there were two competing theories about how the eyes see—both wrong. Alhazen ibn al-Haytham Aristotle believed in w...