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However, Grosseteste is best known as an original thinker for his work concerning what would today be called science or the scientific method

Grosseteste was the first of the Scholastics to fully understand Aristotle's vision of the dual path of scientific reasoning: generalizing from particular observations into a universal law, and then back again from universal laws to prediction of particulars. Therefore, scientific knowledge was demonstrative knowledge of things through their causes. Grosseteste called this "resolution and composition". So, for example, looking at the particulars of the moon, it is possible to arrive at universal laws about nature. Conversely once these universal laws are understood, it is possible to make predictions and observations about other objects besides the moon. Grosseteste said further that both paths should be verified through experimentation to verify the principals involved. These ideas established a tradition that carried forward to Padua and Galileo Galilei in the 17th century.

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Grossesteste is now believed to have had a very modern understanding of colour, and supposed errors in his account have been found to be based on corrupt late copies of his essay on the nature of colour, written in about 1225 (De Luce). In 2014 Grosseteste's 1225 treatise De Luce (On Light) was translated from Latin and interpreted by an interdisciplinary project led by Durham University, that included Latinists, philologists, medieval historians, physicists and cosmologists. De Luce explores the nature of matter and the cosmos. Four centuries before Isaac Newton proposed gravity and seven centuries before the Big Bang theory, Grosseteste described the birth of the Universe in an explosion and the crystallisation of matter to form stars and planets in a set of nested spheres around Earth. De Luce is the first attempt to describe the heavens and Earth using a single set of physical laws. The 'Ordered Universe' collaboration of scientists and historians at Durham University studying medieval science regard him as a key figure in showing that pre-Renaissance science was far more advanced than previously thought.

Grosseteste is now believed to have had a very modern understanding of light and color, which is shown by his scientific treatises De Luce (On Light) and De Colore (On Color). De Luce explores the nature of light, matter, and the cosmos. He argued that light is an infinitely small particle which was the first form of everything within the universe that multiplied itself indefinitely that resulted in a finite magnitude which was physical matter. Grosseteste described the birth of the Universe in an explosion and the crystallization of light into matter to form stars and planets in a set of nested spheres around Earth. '''He also came to the conclusion that, as light dragged the matter of the universe outward and expanding the universe, the density must decrease as the radius increases. Thus, invoking a conservation law centuries before conservation laws became fundamental in modern science.' De Luce'' is the first attempt to describe the heavens and Earth using a single set of physical laws, four centuries before Isaac Newton proposed gravity and seven centuries before the Big Bang theory. 'In his treatise, De Colore,'' Robert Grosseteste had defined color as light incorporated in a diaphanous material. Meaning that color is associated with the interaction of light and materials and that it is a product of variations in the qualities of both the light and the medium. He stated that color had three bipolar properties with two being the properties of the light, which was either multa or pauca, and either clara or obscura with the final property being of the material which was either purum or impurum. They represent aspects of whiteness (multa, clara, and purum) and blackness (pauca, obscura, and impurum). De Colore was Grosseteste's replacement of Aristotle's linear color arrangement between black and white to a three dimensional one based on the aforementioned aspects with 7 different directions of color from white to black with infinite variations in intensity. '''

The 'Ordered Universe' collaboration of scientists and historians at Durham University studying medieval science regard him as a key figure in showing that pre-Renaissance science was far more advanced than previously thought.

Supposed errors in his account have been found to be based on corrupt late copies of his essay on the nature of light, written in about 1225 (De Luce). In 2014 Grosseteste's 1225 treatise De Luce was translated from Latin and interpreted by an interdisciplinary project led by Durham University, that included Latinists, philologists, medieval historians, physicists and cosmologists.