 | This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (June 2011) |
Michael Scot | |
|---|---|
 Michael Scot in the Bodleian Library's De Physionomiae manuscript | |
| Born | Michael Scot 1175 |
| Died | c. 1232 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, astrology, alchemy |
Michael Scot (Latin: Michael Scotus; 1175 – c. 1232) was a Scottish mathematician and scholar in the Middle Ages. He was educated at 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. Scot translated Averroes and was the greatest public intellectual of his day.[1]
- ^ Lyons (2009). The House of Wisdom. Bloomsbury. pp. 158–159. ISBN 9781408800317.