 After several difficult years, Taurellus took up a professorship in ethics at the University of Basel in 1579, and in 1580 he accepted a professorship in natural philosophy and medicine at the University of Altdorf, the university of the city of Nuremberg (on his activity at Altdorf, see Mayer 1960). In accordance with his teaching duties, he published a massive volume on medical prognostics (Taurellus 1581) and an annotated edition of the works of the thirteenth-century physician Arnaldus of Villanova (Arnaldus of Villanova 1585). He returned to philosophy in 1586 with a critical commentary (VML) on Aristotle’s On Life and Death. In 1596 he published a short overview and evaluation of Aristotelian metaphysics, followed in the next year by a 1000-page response to the Averroistic philosophy of Andrea Cesalpino (1524/25–1603), whose work became influential at the University of Altdorf (see Mulsow 2004: 7–9). In a group of three last monographic works, Cosmology (1603 [KOS]), Uranology (1603) and On the Eternity of Things (1604 [DRA]), Taurellus gives detailed responses to central themes of late scholastic cosmology, especially as developed by the Paduan philosopher Francesco Piccolomini (1520–1604). Also a 1604 dissertation, On the Origin of Rational Souls (TRA), is marked by its preface and references to earlier metaphysical works as a text authored by Taurellus (which corresponds to academic practice in early modern Germany). Apart from his scholarly publications, he produced two volumes of poetry (Taurellus 1592, 1595), one of which is regarded as a significant contribution to early modern emblematics (see Homann 1971: 105–122). On September 28, 1606 Taurellus succumbed to the plague at the age of 58.