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An Averroist philosopher who was present, Antonio Berga, insisted that, as the sea was higher than the land, it could not simply be because water naturally flows downhill.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Albertus Magnus and St Thomas devote special treatises to an examination of the Averroist theory of the unity of intellect, which they labour to confute in order to establish the orthodoxy of Aristotle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

Such was the Averroist doctrine of the unity of intellect—the eternal and universal nature of true intellectual life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

Even a lady of Venice, Cassandra Fedele, in 1480, gained her laurels in defence of Averroist theses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

Padua The school of Padua. became the seat of Averroist Aristotelianism; and, when Padua was conquered by Venice in 1405, the printers of the republic spread abroad the teaching of the professors in the university.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various