This article investigates the origin of Robert Grosseteste's theory of matter. Covering Grosseste's early production, from his De artibus liberalibus to De luce and the Commentarius on Aristotle's Physics, his gradual developing of a philosophical theory of matter and prime matter is examined by means of his progressive study of the works of the Aristotelian tradition. Surprisingly, Grosseteste's first notion of matter is bound to alchemy and astrology. It is a physical notion of matter as subject to astral influence and human manipulation. Only with his study of Aristotle's Physics does Grosseteste elaborate a more Aristotelian theory of matter, directly engaging himself with the manifold problems of assimilating Aristotle's theories into a Christian-based speculation. As a consequence, a much-refined version of his theory of matter is presented in the commentary on the Physics and De luce, where prime matter is envisioned as an extensionless point containing in itself the possibility of the existence of the entire universe. Notwithstanding the gradually more philosophical attitude marking Grosseteste's reflection, some tension between the alchemical and metaphysical epistemes of matter he engaged with can be appreciated throughout much of his early production.

本文研究了罗伯特·格罗塞泰斯特的物质理论的起源。占地Grosseste的早期生产的，从他的德artibus liberalibus到德·卢斯和Commentarius亚里士多德的物理学，他的事情和总理物质的哲学理论的逐步发展是由他的亚里士多德的传统作品的进步研究的手段检查。令人惊讶的是，格罗塞泰斯特的第一个物质概念与炼金术和占星术有关。它是物质的物理概念，受星体影响和人类操纵。只有他对亚里士多德物理学的研究Grosseteste 是否详细阐述了一种更亚里士多德的物质理论，直接参与了将亚里士多德的理论同化为基于基督教的推测的多种问题。因此，在《物理学》和《德卢斯》的评论中提出了他的物质理论的一个非常精炼的版本，其中素质被设想为一个无限的点，其自身包含整个宇宙存在的可能性。尽管格罗塞泰斯特的反思逐渐体现出更具哲学性的态度，但在他早期的大部分作品中，他所涉及的物质的炼金术和形而上学认识论之间存在某种紧张关系。