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Michael Scot
1175-00-00 – 1232-00-00
Life & Legacy
Michael Scot (Latin: Michael Scotus; 1175 – c. 1232) was a Scottish mathematician and scholar in the Middle Ages. He was educated at Durham, Oxford and Paris, and worked in Bologna and Toledo, where he learned Arabic. His patron was Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire and Scot served as science adviser and court astrologer to him in Palermo, then capital of the Kingdom of Sicily. Scot translated Averroes and was the greatest public intellectual of his day.
Occupation & Career
translator, mathematician, philosopher, astrologer, physician, magician, writer, astronomer, magister degree, mathematics, astrology
Education
University of Oxford; University of Paris; Durham School
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Catholic Church
Legacy Highlights
Church
Catholic Church
Education & Institutions
Durham School · University of Oxford · University of Paris
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- Wikidata population candidate Q559548 — wikidata View source
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