id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt x920ft86v09 Matthew F. Dowd Astronomy and Compotus at Oxford University in the Early Thirteenth Century: The Works of Robert Grosseteste 2003 .txt text/plain 319 12 39 The first portion of the dissertation provides an intellectual and institutional context for Grosseteste's work, outlining the translation movement and the rise of the universities, especially Oxford, as they pertain to the questions of this dissertation. By the end of the dissertation, it is suggested that Grosseteste's time spent in Hereford was formative for his later work in astronomy and compotus, and that his work in these areas was important for the development of natural philosophy at Oxford. cache/x920ft86v09.txt txt/x920ft86v09.txt