How Long to Read The Life and Legend of Michael Scot

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life and Legend of Michael Scot?

It takes the average reader 5 hours to read The Life and Legend of Michael Scot by J Wood Brown

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Michael Scot was a legendary scholar of the Middle Ages. He was born in 1175 in the border regions of Scotland and northern England. He was an advisor court astrologer to Emperor Frederick II. Scot studied in Oxford and Paris. He was a theologian and appears to have been ordained by Pope Honorius III. He knew many languages and translated important texts from Greek and Arabic, including Aristotle. It was a contemporary of Fibonacci and it is possible he influenced the presentation of his famous Fibonnaci sequence. Noted during for his scholarship in his lifetime, Scot quickly became a legend in the years following his death c. 1232. He gained posthumous fame variously viewed as an alchemist, occultist, sorcerer, and warlock. He is the only Scot to appear in Dante's Divine Comedy. Originally published in 1897, Brown's work remains an important full-length enquiry into Scot's life and legend.

How long is The Life and Legend of Michael Scot?

The Life and Legend of Michael Scot by J Wood Brown is 300 pages long, and a total of 75,000 words.

This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life and Legend of Michael Scot Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read The Life and Legend of Michael Scot aloud.

What Reading Level is The Life and Legend of Michael Scot?

The Life and Legend of Michael Scot is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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