CHAPTER VI. Averroës of Cordova and the Fame He Enjoyed Among the Latins—His

Averroës of Cordova and the fame he enjoyed among the Latins—His works condemned by the Church—Frederick II. likely to have been attracted by this philosophy—Michael Scot at Cordova—Constitution of a new College at Toledo under imperial patronage for the purpose of translating the works of Averroës into Latin—Correspondence between this and the similar enterprise of a hundred years before—Andrew the Jew interprets for Scot—Defence of this literary method—Versions of the De Coelo et Mundo, the De anima, the Parva Naturalia and others—The Quaestiones Nicolai Peripatetici: with a summary of this important treatise—Works found in the Venice manuscript—The Nova Ethica—Michael Scot shines as a translator from the Greek—Comparison between him and Bacon in regard to this, 106