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Our latest scientific research partner was a medieval bishop

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imageThe Greatest Mind You've Never Heard Of

There was something unusual about our recent research collaboration on the science of light, colours and the perception of rainbows: one member of the team wrote his best science in the 1220s.

The Ordered Universe Project sees humanities scholars and scientists come together to carefully read the 13th century...

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