 Averroes expounded Avempace’s view in the Short (SC 53:10–56:10; Lettinck 1994: 316), and the Middle Commentary at length (MC Kalonymos L 45vº22–47rº23) but he also refers to it in the LC where he rejects it because Avempace “abandoned Aristotle’s discourse and erred heavily” (LC 142K TC43). Avempace and al-Fārābī should maintain that the sphere is in place essentially, and Averroes’ summarizing words in the MC may be worth of being translated: