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...

Image from Adelard's translation of Euclid's Elements of Geometry Being inquisitive is the first step to learning.* In the early...

[DailyMedieval is on semi-hiatus for the holidays, and I am re-cycling some older posts. For Christmas I received A Short History of Nearl...

Abu Ma'shar, from his Introduction to Astronomy Albertus Magnus , Robert Grosseteste , Geoffrey Chaucer —well-known names from the M...

Robert Grosseteste (c.1170-1253) has been mentioned in several posts . His early life, beyond having been born into humble beginnings in Sto...

The formation of a rainbow is a complex matter, inspiring both wonder and curiosity. How they come about took a great deal of time, speculat...

In honor of Independence Day in the USA... Everyone knows that to discuss the history of fireworks means talking about China and Marco Pol...

The Classical World and the Middle Ages wrestled with the cause of the tides for centuries. Although one early scholar (Alpetragius, who flo...

Robert Grosseteste (c.1175-1235) is considered by some to be the founder of modern English intellectualism. Among other topics, he focused (...