Well technically it's more like the humanities people asked the physicists to help them interpret his ideas using todays scientific language. If you read Grosse

Well technically it's more like the humanities people asked the physicists to help them interpret his ideas using todays scientific language. If you read Grossetestes original writings, even when translated into english, they read very differently to how any modern scientific theory or description would. So really, the scientists are helping the humanities people examine his ideas through the lens of modern notation and prose. Source: Worked on this project over last summer as one of the scientists, developing 3d visualisation of De Luce.