This somewhat interesting look at the theories of a medieval scholar and bishop includes this bit:
The possible existence of more than one universe was indeed a live issueI wonder what else was covered in that Papal edict of 1277.
of the period, and a highly contentious one — appearing, for example,
in the Papal edict of 1277 that banned a list of scientific teachings.
But it was a debate that Grosseteste apparently chose to avoid. None of
his surviving treatises discusses the possibility of other forms of
universe, however close he came to implying it in his cosmogony.
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