During the Middle Ages Robert Grosseteste became a highly influential man. Mr. Grossetesste was a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church who was intensely interested in the idea of solving the natural world's mysteries by studying the laws God established in motion. Strongly motivated, he desired to explain why things happened the way they happened. Rather than just developing great inventions he also longed to gain knowledge of the conclusions hidden behind the facts. Mr. Grosseteste taught that a scientist should make observations and create an assumed explanation for why the observed events happened. Because of his intelligent influence, he was the first to clarify and utilize what we now declare as the scientific
