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Julius Caesar Scaliger
Julius Caesar Scaliger, or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France. He employed the techniques and discoveries of Renaissance humanism to defend Aristotelianism against the New Learning. In spite of his contentious disposition, his contemporary reputation was high. Jacques Auguste de Thou claimed that none of the ancients coul…
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science · Italian scholar, physician and philosopher (1484–1558) · writer · philosopher · physician · classical scholar · humanist · naturalist · also Julius Caesar Scaliger, Julius Cæsar Scaliger, Julius Scaliger, Scaliger
Born 23 April 1484 · Died 21 October 1558 · Q441066
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“On the Modern Element in Literature”
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Botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle published Scaligeria, a genus of flowering plants from Europe and Asia, belonging to the family Apiaceae and named in Julius Caesar Scaliger's honour
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Died 1558-10-21.
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Born 1484-04-23.
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