Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230)

White, Rebekah C.; Gasper, Giles E.M.; McLeish, Tom C.B.; Tanner, Brian K.; Harvey, Joshua S.; Sønnesyn, Sigbjørn O.; Young, Laura K.; Smithson, Hannah E.

doi:10.1086/713724

All Outputs (6)

Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism (2021)
Book
Healy-Varley, M., Gasper, G. E., & Younge, G. (Eds.). (2021). Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468238

Anselm of Canterbury’s De concordia (2021)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2021). Anselm of Canterbury’s De concordia. In M. Healy-Varley, G. E. Gasper, & G. Younge (Eds.), Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism (13-37). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468238_003

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Healy-Varley, M., Gasper, G. E., & Younge, G. (2021). Introduction. In M. Healy-Varley, G. E. Gasper, & G. Younge (Eds.), Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism (1-9). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468238_002

How to Teach the Franciscans: Robert Grosseteste and the Oxford Community of Franciscans c.1229–35 (2021)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2021). How to Teach the Franciscans: Robert Grosseteste and the Oxford Community of Franciscans c.1229–35. In L. Schumacher (Ed.), Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought (57-75). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684834-003

‘Travelling Optics: Robert Grosseteste and the Optics behind the Rainbow’ (2021)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E., Tanner, B. K., Sønnesyn, S. O., & El-Bizri, N. (2021). ‘Travelling Optics: Robert Grosseteste and the Optics behind the Rainbow’. In C. Etheridge, & M. Campopiano (Eds.), Medieval Science in the North: Travelling Wisdom, 1000-1500 (45-75). Brepols Publishers

Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230) (2021)
Journal Article
White, R. C., Gasper, G. E., McLeish, T. C., Tanner, B. K., Harvey, J. S., Sønnesyn, S. O., Young, L. K., & Smithson, H. E. (2021). Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230). Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 112(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1086/713724

In his treatise On the Rainbow (De iride), composed nearly four hundred years before the first known telescope, the English polymath Robert Grosseteste identified three striking optical effects: distant objects can be rendered close by; close-by larg... Read More about Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230).