Talk:Robert Grosseteste

message: Doesnt Grosseteste mean Big Testicle?
No.  It is not Greek (testes), but Anglo-Norman (French) Grosse Tête, which is either "Big Head" or "Fat Head."  As a surname, it was meant as a compliment, meaning that he was highly intelligent. The surname appears in two other places. There is a Richard Grosseteste who is archdeacon in Sussex (I think) and  a family of Grossetestes that settled in Paris.  They show up in a court document when a parish church attempted to take their house away.  They claim to have a document supporting their ownership and that their grandfather, Robert Grosseteste had been deeded the land.  It is unclear what relation this family is to Grosseteste of Lincoln.  --Theologus (talk) 19:45, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Shouldn't there be a section dealing with the theory that Grosseteste invented an early form of telescope?--Eroica 10:49, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Telescope 

message: Isn't it normal for biographies of people to start with their actual biography and then discuss their works and importance? This article starts with his works and then goes into his biography in the next section; should this be flipped to align with Wikipedia guidelines for biographies (e.g. see William Shakespeare)?--FeanorStar7 10:55, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Layout of article

message: His last name is also known as 'Greathead'  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.215.210.155 (talk) 18:30, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Added, with multa multa cetera. That said, "Grossetête" is not common enough to go into the lead (). — LlywelynII 05:20, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Greathead 

message: It was in the 19th century that scientific disciplines such as biology, chemistry, and physics reached their modern shapes. The same time period also included the origin of the terms "scientist" and "scientific community"--2003:CC:93C1:7801:489B:2649:EE75:22D6 (talk) 09:51, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The origin of the term "scientist" is not really relevant to a discussion of those who were engaging in the scientific study of nature in other times and places.  There is an extensive historical literature that studies ancient and medieval science.  One example of that genre is A. C. Crombie's Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.--SteveMcCluskey (talk) 01:06, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  scientist or saint-ist? 

message: The first external link originally went to a site dedicated to provide electronic access to Latin words of Robert Grosseteste. That link went defunct but is preserved in the wayback machine.  Link. That site does have some useful information. I see that the second external link goes to this link. I don't know enough about the subject matter to know whether the second link is a more active version of the first link or unrelated. Perhaps someone with knowledge of the subject material could identify whether both links are appropriate or if only the second link should be preserved.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:53, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The second link is an important reference to current research on Grosseteste, but is clearly distinct from the link to his works.  --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 00:30, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Were there any important revelations in De Sphera that may have guided then astronomical theory at the time or was it merely a work focused on rehashing older ideas?
-19rtrudkin (talk) 16:49, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  De Sphera 

message: — Assignment last updated by K8shep (talk) 16:13, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: History of Medieval and Early Modern Science

message: I added a new line about how Matthew Paris accounted Grosseteste's ghost killed Pope Innocence IV to the Death and burial section. AreHc (talk) 18:22, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ghost of Grosseteste 

message: I added his work 'De Colore' to the works section.Rivico (talk) 17:53, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Works

message: I made science its own section separate from works.
I added how Grosseteste describes light and color.
I added to and modified the paragraph starting with "Grossesteste is now believed to have had a very modern understanding of colour."
I added to and modified the paragraph starting with "Grosseteste was the first of the Scholastics to fully understand Aristotle's vision of the dual path of scientific reasoning."
I moved this text: "However, Grosseteste is best known as an original thinker for his work concerning what would today be called science or the scientific method." added it to the science section as a standalone, and removed 'however.'
Noted that this article uses British spelling. Rivico (talk) 01:17, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Science

message: Biobox says died aged about 85.  'Death and Burial' section says 'He was aged between seventy and eighty'. 2A00:23C7:CA88:B701:6CA4:3FA3:E65A:DE61 (talk) 11:50, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing this out. Jim Killock (talk) 21:18, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, hopefully Jim Killock (talk) 22:20, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Age

message: Why hasn't a lunar crater been named after him?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.67.35 (talk) 21:20, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Lunar crater