Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln
Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln has been the venue for our monthly meetings since 2005.
Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln was founded as a teacher training college for the Diocese of Lincoln in 1862. It was originally known as the Diocesan Training School for Mistresses, then Lincoln Diocesan Training College, and then Bishop Grosseteste College, before it achieved university college statuts and adopted its current name in 2006.
The college takes its present name from Robert Grosseteste (left), a 13th century Bishop of Lincoln, theologian and scholar.
Grosseteste wrote a number of early works in Latin and French, including one theological works such as the influential Hexaëmeron, poetry, and texts on household management and courtly etiquette. However, Grosseteste is best known for his scientific treatises written between about 1220 to 1235. These include:
- De sphera: An introductory text on astronomy
- De luce: On the “metaphysics of light”
- De accessione et recessione maris: On tides and tidal movements
- De lineis, angulis et figuris: Mathematical reasoning in the natural sciences
- De iride: On the rainbow
We meet in the Hardy Building (named for Robert Hardy). The entrance is in Longdales Road.
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