Scott, Michael
Scott, Michael or Michael Scot , ( c. 1175 – c. 1235 ),a Scottish scholar, born at Balwearie, who studied at Oxford, Bologna, and Paris, and was attached to the court of Frederick II at Palermo, probably in the capacity of official astrologer. He translated works of Aristotle from Arabic to Latin (including De Anima, pre- 1220 ), and perhaps Averroës ' great Aristotelian Commentary, which he certainly began. Because the science he studied was astronomy, legends of his magical power grew up and served as a theme for many writers from Dante (Inferno, xx. 116) to Sir W. Scott in The Lay of the Last Minstrel . Works of his on astronomy and alchemy, and various translations, still remain in manuscript. See Lynn Thorndike , Michael Scot ( 1965 ).
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