The Preferments and ‘Adiutores’ of Robert Grosseteste

1933 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 161-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Russell
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Scientific Achievements

In many fields of activity Robert Grosseteste was an important figure in thirteenth-century England. Bishop of Lincoln for nearly two decades (1235–1253), he pursued a vigorous policy as statesman and churchman. He was already a distinguished teacher and chancellor of the University of Oxford. His voluminous writings were more acceptable to his contemporaries than those of any other author. His scientific achievements were such that Professor Sarton has styled a volume of his monumental History of Science, From Robert Grosseteste to Roger Bacon. In death his memory was revered as that of a saint.

Visits

1961 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-91
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Buildings ◽  
The University

The visit to the University of Oxford took place of Thursday 21 July. The visitors arrived in Oxford by coach where they were met by student guides who took them on short tours of some of the Colleges and University buildings and later to the Colleges where they were entertained to lunch. In the afternoon they went sight-seeing again, some to the Museum of the History of Science to see a special exhibition illustrating the work of the early Fellows of the Royal Society, and some to Blackwells where a display of scientific books had been arranged. At 3.30 the visitors assembled in the Sheldonian Theatre where Honorary Degrees were conferred on five of the distinguished guests (see p. 86). After the Degree Ceremony there was a garden party at Wadham where the visitors were the guests of the Warden, Sir Maurice Bowra, and the Fellows. In the evening the President and Council were entertained to dinner at Wadham together with the Council of the British Academy as guests of Sir Maurice Bowra, President of the British Academy. On Monday 25 July a visit was made to the University of Cambridge. Twelve coaches left Burlington House and arrived at the University of Cambridge Library where the visitors were able to inspect the Library, and in particular, the special collection of exhibits with Royal Society associations.

Johann Gaspar Scheuchzer, F. R. S. 1702-1729

1948 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Under the heading of Foreign Secretaries, the Record of the Royal Society shows in the second place on the list the names of Dr Dillenius and Dr Scheuchzer, elected on 18 April 1728, as joint successors to Philip Henry Zollman. Johann Jakob Dill, or Dillenius, is well known to students of the history of science, as a celebrated botanist, born at Darmstadt in 1648, educated at Giessen, elected into the Fellowship of the Royal Society on 25 June 1724, and appointed Sherardian Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford in 1734. He died in 1747. Of his colleague Johann Gaspar Scheuchzer, however, little is known. Born at Zurich in 1702, the son of Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, F.R.S., Johann Gaspar came to England when he was twenty years old, under circumstances on which a little light is now thrown, thanks to the publication of some letters written to his father by John Woodward and Sir Hans Sloane.1 By the kind permission of the editor of Atlanis, Dr Martin Hiirlimann, they are reprinted below.

Dan Inman, The Making of English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014). ISBN: 9781451469264

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Zachhuber
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

This chapter reviews the book The Making of English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford (2014). by Dan Inman. The book offers an account of a fascinating and little known episode in the history of the University of Oxford. It examines the history of Oxford’s Faculty of Theology from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In particular, it revisits the various attempts to tinker with theology at Oxford during this period and considers the fierce resistance of conservatives. Inman argues that Oxford’s idiosyncratic development deserves to be taken more seriously than it often has been, at least by historians of theology.

Reform and Revisionism in the Study of Henrician England - Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham. By Barbara J. Harris. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp. viii + 334. $37.50. - The Power of the Tudor Nobility. By G. W. Bernard. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1985. Pp. 228. - Rome ou l'Angleterre? Les reactions politiques des Catholiques Anglais au moment du schisme. By Jean-Pierre Moreau. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1984. Pp. 377. - Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII. By Maria Dowling. London: Croom Helm, 1986. Pp. 283. $43.00. - Reassessing the Henrician Age: Humanism, Politics, and Reform, 1500–1550. Edited by Alistair Fox and John Guy. Oxford: Basil Black well, 1986. Pp. vi + 242. - The History of the University of Oxford, vol. 3: The Collegiate University. Edited by James McConica. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. $125.00. - Revolution Reassessed: Revisions in the History of Tudor Government and Administration. Edited by Christopher Coleman and David Starkey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. viii + 219. - Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia. By Lacey Baldwin Smith. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. 342. $25.00. - Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance. By Margaret King. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xxi + 524.

1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-197
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
Oxford University Press

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

It is my pleasant duty to welcome you all most warmly to this meeting, which is one of the many events stimulated by the advisory committee of the William and Mary Trust on Science and Technology and Medicine, under the Chairmanship of Sir Arnold Burgen, the immediate past Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. This is a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy, whose President, Sir Randolph Quirk, will be Chairman this afternoon, and it covers Science and Civilization under William and Mary, presumably with the intention that the Society would cover Science if the Academy would cover Civilization. The meeting has been organized by Professor Rupert Hall, a Fellow of the Academy and also well known to the Society, who is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College in the University of London; and Mr Norman Robinson, who retired in 1988 as Librarian to the Royal Society after 40 years service to the Society.

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