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the Toledo school — The date when Scot finished this work. 

 — Frederick's interest in these books — The De partihus 

 animalium — Did Scot know Greek ? — How the Arabian 

 Natural History contrasts with the modern — Toledo, . . 42 



CHAPTER IV 



Alchemy : its history, both primitive and derivative — The 

 Gnostics influence it, and it passes by way of the Syrians to 

 the Arabs— Disputes divide their schools in the twelftli 

 century regarding the reality of this art — Spain the scene of 

 this activity and the place where alchemy began to become 

 known among the Latins — The time when the work of 

 translation commenced, and the course it followed — Scot's 

 position in the history of this art, and an examination of his 

 chemical works : the spurious De natura soils et lunae, the 

 Magisterium, the Liber Luviinis Luminum, and the De 

 Alchimia, 65 



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Connection between alchemy and astronomy — Scot's interest 

 in the latter science — Toledo a favourable place for such 

 study — Progress made by the INIoors in astronomy— Scot 

 translates Alpetrongi— Relation of this author to those who 

 had preceded him : to Albategni ; to Al Khowaresmi and to 

 Alfargan — The fresh contributions made by Alpetrongi to a 

 theory of the heavenly motions — His solution of the pro- 

 blems of recession and solstitial change — The date of Scot's 

 version of the Sphere, and its possible coincidence with that 

 of the great astronomical congress at Toledo, ... 96 



CHAPTEE VI 



Averroes 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 Averroes into Latin — Correspondence between 

 this and the similar enterprise of a hundred years before — 



