Robert Grosseteste, English bishop and philosopher (born 1175)

Robert Grosseteste

13th-century Bishop of Lincoln, astrologer, scientist, and philosopher

Robert Grosseteste, also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents in Suffolk, but the association with the village of Stradbroke is a post-medieval…