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Robert Grosseteste and his Treatise on Lines, Angles and Figures of the Propagation of Light

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  • Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

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Robert Grosseteste, an English philosopher and scientist, Bishop of Lincoln, is considered as the founder of the scientific thought in medieval Oxford. During the beginning of the XIII century he wrote several scientific papers concerning light and its propagation, where he based the description of some phenomena on the use of geometry. Here we will translate and discuss one of his scientific treatises concerning light, which is entitled De Lineis, Angulis et Figuris, seu Fractionibus et Reflexionibus Radiorum. Since to Grosseteste, the propagation of light had the main role in the creation of the world, the use of its geometry becomes a method to solve the complexity of the physical world. However, besides the use of geometry, we will find in this interesting text the description of some phenomena concerning the intensity of reflected and refracted light, which seems well-posed, even when compared with the modern Fresnel theory.

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  • Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2013. "Robert Grosseteste and his Treatise on Lines, Angles and Figures of the Propagation of Light," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 2(09), pages 101-107, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:adm:journl:v:2:y:2013:i:9:p:101-107
    DOI: 10.18483/ijSci.295
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    1. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2014. "Robert Grosseteste's Thought on Light and Form of the World," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 3(04), pages 54-62, April.
    2. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2013. "On the Rainbow, a Robert Grosseteste's Treatise on Optics," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 2(09), pages 108-113, September.
    3. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2013. "The Generation of Sounds According to Robert Grosseteste," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 2(10), pages 1-5, October.
    4. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2014. "De Calore Solis, a Treatise on Heat by Robert Grosseteste," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 3(01), pages 27-31, January.

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