To: TigerPaw who wrote (2444 ) 3/20/2009 7:57:48 AM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to "invented science"? en.wikipedia.org Parts four, five, and six consider, respectively, mathematics, optics, and experimental science. They include a review of alchemy and the manufacture of gunpowder and of the positions and sizes of the celestial bodies, and anticipates later inventions, such as microscopes, telescopes, spectacles, flying machines, hydraulics and steam ships. The study of optics in part five seems to draw on the works of the Arab writers Kindi and Alhazen, including a discussion of the physiology of eyesight, the anatomy of the eye and the brain, and considers light, distance, position, and size, direct vision, reflected vision, and refraction, mirrors and lenses. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org Albertus' writings collected in 1899 went to thirty-eight volumes. These displayed his prolific habits and literally encyclopedic knowledge of topics such as logic, theology, botany, geography, astronomy, astrology, mineralogy, chemistry, zoology, physiology, phrenology and others; all of which were the result of logic and observation. en.wikipedia.org However, Grosseteste is best known as an original thinker for his work concerning what would today be called science or the scientific method. en.wikipedia.org
