"To compare him to the modern doctors is as the comparison of the sun to the moon when it is eclipsed."
— Robert Grosseteste

January 1, 1970

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John Tyssyngton, as quoted in The Life and Times of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln by George Gresley Perry, citing Wood, Annals i. 202.