Roberto Grosseteste, the English bishop and philosopher who in the Middle Ages conceived antecedent of the Big Bang theory

The legend, collected by the English Benedictine monk Matthew of Paris, tells that the energetic Pope Innocent IV died of a heart failure caused by the creepy night vision of a ghost. It was the spirit of Roberto Grosseteste, a British Franciscan who died a year before he was bishop of Lincoln and whose profound scholarship [...]