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	Scaliger - LoveToKnow 1911
		Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), the greatest scholar of modern times, was the tenth child and third son of Julius Caesar Scaliger and Andiette de Rogues Lobejac.
		Joseph was also required each day to write a Latin theme or declamation, though in other respects he seems to have been left to his own devices.
		For Scaliger was no hermit buried among his books; he was fond of social intercourse and was himself a good talker.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Scaliger (3564 words)

	Two Architects of Time
		As usual in those days, the authority of the Bible stood in the way: the devout Scaliger found to his displeasure that there were indubitable historical facts—including, among others, the reign of the early pharaohs of Egypt—that in his chronology would have taken place prior to 4004 B.C., the generally accepted date of the Creation.
		For Scaliger the dilemma was that he did not choose to contest the received wisdom of the fundamentalist protestant reckoning that prevailed at the time.
		What stooped Scaliger did, however, not scare the Jesuit priest Dionysius Petavius who, in 1633, some 25 years after Scaliger’s death, boldly and convincingly argued that, if the calculated date of Creation was standing in the way of established facts, Creation would have to move.
	www.xs4all.nl /~michonja/Architects_of_Time.htm (2419 words)

	Joseph Justus Scaliger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609) was a French religious leader and scholar.
		He was born at Agen, the tenth child and third son of Julius Caesar Scaliger and Andiette de Roques Lobejac.
		Of Joseph Scaliger, the only biography in any way adequate was that of Jakob Bernays (Berlin, 1855).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Justus_Scaliger (2459 words)

	The Fanatical Classics Page
		Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) was of Italian descent.
		Scaliger had already given early proof of his study of Varro (1565) and had edited the Catalecta of Virgil (1573).
		Scaliger not only exhibits a remarkable aptitude for the soundest type of textual emendation; but he is also the founder of historical criticism.
	members.tripod.com /~classicspage/scaliger.html (476 words)

	The Julian Period
		Joseph Justus Scaliger was born in France in 1540 and died in the Netherlands in 1609; he was converted to Protestantism, left France before Protestants were massacred there, and accepted a position at the University of Leiden where he remained.
		Scaliger’s work, Opus de Emendatione Tempore (“Work on the Emendation of Time”), published in 1583, describes and compares calendars and computations of time throughout the ancient world, and offers the Julian Period as a means of correlating those calendars.
		Scaliger was looking for a time period long enough to cover all of recorded history, and therefore didn’t bother to address the question of dates outside of the 7980 year period.
	www.pauahtun.org /Calendar/julian_period.html (855 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Scaliger's father, Benedetto Bordon, was an expert miniaturist and illuminator of manuscripts and books, and a graphic artist.
		About 1515 SCaliger composed a poem, "Elysium," dedicated to Alfonso and Isabella d'Este, but the outcome seems to indicate that he failed to gain the patronage he was manifestly seeking.
		Joseph Justus Scaliger, following his father's charade, gave the Della Scala myth its enduring statement in a published letter, which is available in quite a few sources.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/scaliger.html (756 words)

	The 21st Century and the Third Millennium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Scaliger knew that the year of Christ's birth (as determined by Dionysius Exiguus) was characterized by the number 9 of the solar cycle, by Golden Number 1, and by number 3 of the indiction cycle, or (9,1,3).
		Then Scaliger chose as this initial epoch the year characterized by (1,1,1) and determined that (9,1,3) was year 4713 of his chronological era.
		Scaliger's initial epoch was later to be adopted as the initial epoch for the Julian Day numbers.
	aa.usno.navy.mil /faq/docs/millennium.html (723 words)

	Scaliger, Joseph Justus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		SCALIGER, JOSEPH JUSTUS [Scaliger, Joseph Justus], 1540-1609, French classical scholar.
		He was the son of Julius Caesar Scaliger, from whom he acquired his early mastery of Latin.
		He adopted Protestantism in 1562, served as companion of a Poitevin noble (1563-70), studied under Cujas at Valence (1570-72), and was professor of philosophy at Geneva (1572-74).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-scaligj1j1.html (376 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Scaliger,
		Scaliger, Joseph Justus SCALIGER, JOSEPH JUSTUS [Scaliger, Joseph Justus], 1540-1609, French classical scholar.
		Scaliger, Julius Caesar SCALIGER, JULIUS CAESAR [Scaliger, Julius Caesar] 1484-1558, Italian philologist and physician in France.
		Scaliger studied medicine and settled in France (1526), where he worked as a physician.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Scaliger, (388 words)

	Scaliger, Definition of Chronology - Timeline Index
		The real importance of Scaliger's work to chronology, however, resides not so much in his results but in the quality of his work, his introduction of new methods such as the Julian Period and his insistence upon a rigorous criticism of sources, and his redefinition of chronology itself.
		Scaliger's conclusions were also disputed by several of his contemporaries, including Arcilla, a professor at Salamanca University, and Hardouin, director of the French Royal Library, among many others.
		The work of Scaliger and his imitators of the seventeenth century, however, represents a high-water mark for the field of chronology for several centuries thereafter.
	www.timelineindex.com /content/view/1459 (250 words)

	Appendix: Scaliger's List of Eras
		Scaliger took his Palestinian calendar as announcing that AD 1575 = Jewish 5335 was year 1 of the Sabbatic cycle, and he knew that 5335/7 = 762 rem.
		Scaliger points out that errors have been made about this «a quibusdam Astronomis magni nominis», and that it is vital to provide a «character» for the Olympic era to prevent recurrences of the mistake.
		Scaliger holds that the interval starts before the death of Nero, and that only one year passed from the death of Nero to the accession of Vespasian [modern accounts set the interval between Nero's death on 6 June 68 and Vitellius' by 20 December 69].
	hbar.phys.msu.su /test/fomenko/scalera.htm (6430 words)

	Autobiography of Joseph Scaliger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From "Autobiography of Joseph Scaliger, with autobiographical selections from his letters, his testament and the funeral orations by Daniel Heinsius and Dominicus Baudius" translated by G. Robinson, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1927
		I was baptized in the church of Saint Hilary.
		Scaliger makes the same excuse in a letter to Isaac Casaubon, May 7, 1594, where he calls leisure optimum studiorum coagulum.
	hbar.phys.msu.su /gorm/fomenko/scaliga.htm (1135 words)

	Feats of Scholarship
		Doubtless one of the most learned and presumptuous men in the history of scholarship, Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609) could read Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Ethiopic, and brought all to bear on his virtuosic editions of ancient authors.
		Scaliger's conception of history was extremely influential; a remark of his on the four ages of Greek poetry would be expanded by Winckelmann into an evolutionary scheme for Greek art.
		Scaliger's younger contemporary, Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) is today known primarily as the inspiration for Edward Casaubon, the impotent husband of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot's novel Middlemarch.
	www.brynmawr.edu /library/exhibits/antiquity/occupations3.htm (299 words)

	The Enterprise Mission - Millenium
		Scaliger was one of Clavius' advisors, and is generally considered to have been one of the founders of the science of chronology.
		Scaliger combined three traditionally recognized temporal cycles of 28, 19 and 15 years to obtain a great cycle, the Scaliger cycle, or Julian period, of 7980 years (7980 is the least common multiple of 28, 19 and 15).
		Joseph Scaliger proposed a period of 7,980 years of numbered days to be used in determining time elapsed between various historical events otherwise recorded only in different chronologies, eras, or calendars.
	www.enterprisemission.com /millenn3.php (6690 words)

	Joseph Justus Scaliger (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Muretus in the latter part of his life professed the strictest orthodoxy; J Lipsius had been reconciled to the Church of Rome; Isaac Casaubon was supposed to he wavering But Scaliger was known to be hopeless, and as long as his supremacy was unquestioned the Protestants had the victory in learning and scholarship.
		The author professes to point out five hundred lies in the Epislola de vetustate of Scaliger, But the main argument of the book is to show the falsity of his pretensions to be of the family of La Scala, and of the narrative of his father's early life.
		For the life of Joseph, besides the letters published by M Tamizis de Larroque (Agen, 1881), the two old collections of Latin and French letters and the two Scaligerana are the most important sources of information.
	joseph-justus-scaliger.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (2531 words)

	SCALIGER - Online Information article about SCALIGER
		Of his life during this period we have interesting details and notices in the Letires francaises in Mites de Joseph Scaliger, edited by M Tamizey de Larroque (Agen, 1881).
		case as to Julius, Joseph had undoubtedly believed himself a prince of Verona, and in his Epistola had put forth with the most perfect good faith, and without inquiry, all that he had heard from his father.
		Julius is simply held up to ridicule, while the life of Joseph is almost wholly based on the book of Sciop- Eius and the Scaligerana.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAR_SCY/SCALIGER.html (4921 words)

	Julian day number and Julian period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609), is still the basis of the way we number days.
		Not surprisingly, Scaliger missed: the three cycles don't start on that date, since, among other complications, the lunar cycle is not exactly 19 years.
		It is often said that Scaliger named the Julian period after his father, but at the end of the introductory section to Book V of De Emendatione Temporum he explicitly states that he named his period after the Julian year.
	www.sizes.com /time/dayJulianr.htm (988 words)

	EDITION OF THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOSEPH SCALIGER
		Edition of the Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger: In the autumn of 2002, Professor Anthony Grafton was awarded a Balzan Prize for the History of the Humanities.
		As a research professor at the University of Leiden, Scaliger revolutionized the study of ancient and medieval, Near Eastern and Western history.
		The Scaliger Institute of Leiden University, whose library houses the largest single collection of primary material relevant to the edition, has agreed to act as co-sponsor of the project.
	warburg.sas.ac.uk /Fellowships/scaliger.htm (1098 words)

	August 5: Joseph Scaliger, scholar
		As with the majority of Frenchmen, Joseph was born into a Catholic household.
		Joseph set ancient chronology on a scientific footing and discovered the "Julian period," a way of identifying years in various cycles so that every day had a unique number.
		Robinson, George W. Autobiography of Joseph Scaliger; with autobiographical selections from his letters, his testament, and the funeral orations of by Daniel Heinsius and Dominicus Baudius.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/08/daily-08-05-2003.shtml (747 words)

	Anthony Grafton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this way he was able to write his pioneering biography on Scaliger, which deals not only with its main subject, but also conjures up a network of contemporary scholars and their manifold activities.
		As for Scaliger himself, Grafton had to study not only how and why the great scholar set out to recover the original form of classical texts, and who and what inspired him, but also his work in historical chronology, or the study of dates and calendars in ancient and recent history.
		Grafton successfully undertook the daunting task of piercing the armour of mystery enveloping the subject in general and Scaliger's efforts in particular.
	www.engin.umich.edu /class/eecs281/proj2/large0/f00884 (715 words)

	Boulder Community Network, Y2K, Julian and Gregorian Day Numbers
		The Julian Day number system was invented by Joseph Justus Scaliger (born 1540-08-05 J in Agen, France, died 1609-01-21 J in Leiden, Holland), who during his life immersed himself in Greek, Latin, Persian and Jewish literature.
		The younger Scaliger combined three traditionally recognized temporal cycles of 28, 19 and 15 years to obtain a great cycle, the Scaliger cycle, or Julian period, of 7980 years (7980 is the least common multiple of 28, 19 and 15).
		Little mention seems to be made as to whether Joseph Scaliger regarded -4712-01-01 J as day 0 or as day 1 in the first Julian period.
	bcn.boulder.co.us /y2k/y2kbcalc.htm (1530 words)

	JOSEPH JUSTUS SCALIGER (de la Scala) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Er wurde von seinem Vater in die klassischen Sprachen eingeführt, studierte dann in Bordeaux und Paris klassische und orientalische Literaturen und verschaffte sich auf verschiedenen Reisen in ganz Europa eine hervorragende Kenntnis der meisten europäischen Sprachen.
		Literatur: C. Schoppe, Scaliger hypobolimaeus, Mainz 1607; J. Bernays, Joseph Justus Scaliger, 1855 (auch 1959, ND 1965); G. Robinson (Hg.), Daniel Heinsius and Dominicus Baudius, Autobiography of Joseph Scaliger, with autobiographical selections...
		de Jonge, Joseph Scaliger, a bibliography, 1852-1982, The Hague 1982; A, Grafton, L. Jardine, From humanism to the humanities, education and the liberal arts in 15.- and 16.-century Europe, Cambridge, Mass.1986; A. Grafton New Worlds, ancient texts, the power of tradition and the shock of discovery, Cambridge, Mass.
	www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /philo/galerie/neuzeit/scaliger.htm (341 words)

	Calendar Code of Nostradamus
		The astronomers calendar was named by Joseph Scaliger when he developed its structure in the early seventeenth century.
		Joseph was the son of Jules Scaliger after whom he named his dating method.
		Joseph's calendar was based on three cycles, the Solar cycle, the Metonic cycle and the 15 year cycle of indiction.
	alynptyltd.tripod.com /nd/CalendarCode.htm (6271 words)

	Joseph Justus Scaliger - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Joseph Justus Scaliger
		He revolutionized the study of ancient chronology in his editions of Manilius (1579) and Opus De Emendatione Temporum (1583), and reconstructed the lost Chronicle of Eusebius (1606).
		Scaliger was born in Agen, southwest France, son of the scholar and soldier Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558) who had been a Ciceronian critic of Erasmus.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Joseph+Justus+Scaliger (159 words)

	Technical Chronology
		Scaliger discredited the forgeries of Annius of Viterbo, for example, upon which many chronologers had depended wholly or in part, and insisted upon the independent value of pagan, non-Biblical sources.
		Scaliger was a brilliant scholar who studied mathematics among his many accomplishments, but he was not a mathematician.
		Likewise, neither Scaliger, nor his imitators or contemporaries had readily available computation resources that would have enabled them, for example, to compare dates with astronomical events with speed and accuracy, correlate complex chronologies, or perform any of the other involved computations that form a necessary part of the modern research arsenal.
	www.hermetic.ch /compsci/techchron.htm (2325 words)

	KB 15177: add history lesson
		Invented by Joseph Scaliger in 1583, he combined the solar, lunar and a particular Roman tax cycle to come up a with 7,980 year cycle which he arbitrarily started at the begining of 4713 BC.
		Regarding the Julian period the U.S. Naval Observatory has this to say: In the 16th century Joseph Justus Scaliger tried to resolve the patchwork of historical eras by placing everything on a single system.
		Then Scaliger chose as this initial epoch the year characterized by (1,1,1) and determined that (9,1,3) was year 4713 of his chronological era [and thus that year (1,1,1) was 4713 B.C].
	www.robelle.com /kbs/kb15177.html (764 words)

	Amazon.com: Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume I: Textual Criticism and Exegesis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amazon.com: Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship.
		This volume is the first half of an intellectual biography of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the greatest classical scholar of his time.
		Anthony Grafton describes Scaliger's early work as an editor of and commentator on classical texts, setting this into the wider context of classical scholarship in the Renaissance.
	www.amazon.com /Joseph-Scaliger-Classical-Scholarship-Oxford-Warburg/dp/019814850X (511 words)

	The Julian date
		The inventor of the Julian date is Joseph Justus Scaliger.
		Joseph Justus Scaliger developed a calendar with that it, independently of calendar reforms, possible was daily differences to be computed.
		The naming is based either on Julius Caesar Scaliger, to the father of Joseph Justus Scaliger, or on the use of the years after the Julian calendar.
	www.kalendersysteme.de /english/calendar/systems/calendar_01.html (612 words)

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