Michael Scot
Scottish mathematician and scholar (1175-c.1232) · Academics
Michael Scot 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.
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Scot translated Averroes and was the greatest public intellectual of his day.
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1175 to 1235 · aged 60
