Michael Scot (Latin: Michael Scotus) (1175 – c.1232) was a medieval mathematician and scholar.
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“While Michael Angelo’s Sistine roof,
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How sinew that has been pulled tight,
Or it may be loosened in repose,
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Yet be but sinew.”
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