Julius Caesar Scaliger
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Italian scholar, physician and philosopher (1484-1558)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 23 April 1484
- Died
- 21 October 1558
- Works
- 88
Top works
- Select translations from Scaliger's poetics
- Exotericarum exercitationum liber XV., De subtilitate
- Ivlii Caesaris Scaligeri Exotericarvm exercitationvm liber xv. de subtilitate
- Ivlii Caesaris Scaligeri Exotericarvm exercitationvm liber xv. de svbtilitate
- Ivlii Caesaris Scaligeri De cavsis lingvae Latinae libri tredecim
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Saturation in qualitative research: exploring its conceptualization and operationalization
· 2017 · cited 9,796x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,930x
- The capsaicin receptor: a heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway
· 1997 · cited 7,849x
- nuScenes: A Multimodal Dataset for Autonomous Driving
· 2020 · cited 5,745x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,777x
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Julius Caesar Scaliger, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Julius Caesar Scaliger Julius Caesar Scaliger (/ˈskælɪdʒər/; 23 April or August 1484 – 21 October 1558), 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 could be placed above him and that he had no equal in his own time.
Biography
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