Note 627 — Chapter VI · COSMOGONY, COSMOLOGY, AND COSMOGRAPHY
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Zöckler, Geschichte, vol. i, 1877, pp. 429–430. Averroës discussed the origin of matter in his commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, XII (Renan, Averroès, 1866, pp. 108–115). On medieval opposition to the Averroïstic doctrine of the eternity of the world, see the same, pp. 258, 274. On Michael Scot’s denial of this doctrine see Haskins, Michael Scot, 1921–1922, pp. 260–261; the same, Studies, 1924, p. 285.