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  1. Mar 26, 2024 · Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Robert Grosseteste ( / ˈɡroʊstɛst / GROHS-test; Latin: Robertus Grosseteste; c. 1168 – 8 or 9 October 1253), also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln.

  2. Jul 10, 2007 · Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1168–1253), Bishop of Lincoln from 1235 to 1253, was one of the most prominent and remarkable figures in thirteenth-century English intellectual life. He was a man of many talents: commentator and translator of Aristotle and Greek patristic thinkers, philosopher, theologian, and student of nature.

  3. Robert Grosseteste (born c. 1175, Suffolk, Eng.—died Oct. 9, 1253, Buckden, Buckinghamshire) was an English bishop and scholar who introduced into the world of European Christendom Latin translations of Greek and Arabic philosophical and scientific writings.

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  4. Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175 - October 9, 1253), English statesman, theologian and bishop of Lincoln, was born of humble parents at Stradbroke in Suffolk. A.C. Crombie calls him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in mediaeval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition" .

  5. Grosseteste was the first of the Scholastics to fully understand Aristotle's vision of the dual path of scientific reasoning: Generalizing from particular observations into a universal law, and then back again from universal laws to prediction of particulars.

  6. Oct 9, 2012 · Robert Grosseteste was an English bishop who worked on geometry, optics and astronomy and made Latin translations of many Greek and Arabic scientific writings.

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  8. 5 days ago · Quick Reference. ( c .1168–1253) English medieval philosopher. Born in Suffolk, Grosseteste gained a reputation in medicine, and after study in Paris became perhaps the first Chancellor of the university of Oxford. He taught the Franciscans in Oxford, and became Bishop of Lincoln in 1235.

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