Abstract
Michael Scot (d. ca 1235) has long been known as an important figure in medieval intellectual history. Translator (from Arabic) of Greek scientific and philosophical texts, notably of al-Bitrūjī and Averroes, he spent the last years of his life as an astrologer at the court of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II (1220–1250) in Palermo. It is at the request of the emperor that Scot composed his major work, the Liber introductorius, a massive encyclopaedia in three parts dealing respectively with astrology and astronomy (the Liber quatuor distinctionum), cosmology (the Liber particularis), and physiognomy (the Liber physonomie). Reviewed by: David Juste, Published Online (2021-08-31)Copyright © 2021 by David JusteThis open access publication is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND) Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/37731/28732 Corresponding Author:David Juste,Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, MunichE-Mail: djuste@ptolemaeus.badw.de
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