Person: Grosseteste, Robert
Robert Grosseteste was an English bishop who worked on geometry, optics and astronomy and made Latin translations of many Greek and Arabic scientific writings.
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- Grosseteste worked on geometry, optics and astronomy.
- Grosseteste realised that the hypothetical space in which Euclid imagined his figures was the same everywhere and in every direction.
- Grosseteste also made Latin translations of many Greek and Arabic scientific writings.
- Roger Bacon was Grosseteste's student.
Born 1168, Stradbroke, Suffolk, England. Died 9 October 1253, Buckden, Buckinghamshire, England.
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Astronomy, Origin England, Physics
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