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Joseph Justus Scaliger (/ˈskælɪər/; 5 August 1540 – 21 January 1609) was a Franco-Italian Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian history. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in the Netherlands.

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Joseph Justus Scaliger

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Joseph Justus Scaliger (/ˈskælɪdʒər/; 5 August 1540 – 21 January 1609) was a Franco-Italian Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding...

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Scaliger

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Caesar Scaliger) and his son Joseph Justus Scaliger, made a reputation as humanist scholars, though their relationship to the historic Scaliger family...

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Female

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small cross underneath, is commonly used to represent females. Joseph Justus Scaliger once speculated that the symbol was associated with Venus, goddess...

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Digamma

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by the seventeenth century humanist Joseph Justus Scaliger. However, misinterpreting Beda's reference, Scaliger applied the term episēmon not as a name...

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Sappho

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her work publicly destroyed, and at the end of the 16th century Joseph Justus Scaliger claimed that her works were burned in Rome and Constantinople in...

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Agen

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Palissy (ca.1510–1590), potter, he may have been born in Saintes. Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609), Calvinist religious leader and scholar. Pierre Dupuy...

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Chelys

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43). Propertius (iv. 6) calls the instrument the lyra testudinea. Joseph Justus Scaliger was probably the first writer to draw attention to the difference...

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Chronology

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comparing with other chronologies. The last great chronographer was Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) who reconstructed the lost Chronicon and synchronized...

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Decan

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Aristobulus of Paneas. Julius Firmicus Maternus, Cosmas of Maiuma, Joseph Justus Scaliger, and Athanasius Kircher. Images of the decans are described in Hermetic...

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Julius Caesar Scaliger

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for twenty-nine years and produced fifteen children, including Joseph Justus Scaliger. In 1829, botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle published Scaligeria...

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Dating creation

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Cornelius Cornelii a Lapide (3961 BC), John Lightfoot (3960 BC), Joseph Justus Scaliger (3949 BC), Christoph Helvig (3947 BC), Gerardus Mercator (3928 BC)...

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College of Guienne

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Italian scholar and physician Julius Caesar Scaliger sent his sons to the college, including Joseph Justus Scaliger. The regulations of the Collège de Guyenne...

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Cabeiri

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word kabir ("great") has been compared to Κάβειροι since at least Joseph Justus Scaliger in the sixteenth century, but nothing else seemed to point to a...

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Crimean Goths

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and praised the Christian God "in their own language". In 1606 Joseph Justus Scaliger claimed that the Goths of Crimea read both the Old and New Testaments...

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James Ussher

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one also attempted by many Post-Reformation scholars, such as Joseph Justus Scaliger and physicist Isaac Newton. Ussher's chronology represented a considerable...

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List of last words

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is nothing that could make me wish to live one hour longer." — Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Calvinist religious leader and scholar (21 January 1609)...

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Names of the Irish state

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Ireland as a constituent country. According to Roderick O'Flaherty, Joseph Justus Scaliger "reckons up eleven of twelve matricular languages yet remaining...

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Antiquarian

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John Leland, Guido Panciroli, John Stow, William Camden, Justus Lipsius, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Johannes Meursius, Hubert Goltzius, Henry Spelman, Charles...

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Sampi

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which has been debated ever since Joseph Justus Scaliger drew attention to it in the mid-17th century. Scaliger's discussion also contains the first...

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August 5

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1474) 1461 – Alexander Jagiellon, Polish king (d. 1506) 1540 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French philologist and historian (d. 1609) 1607 – Antonio Barberini...

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Josippon

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respected as a historical source by the Jews of the Middle Ages. Joseph Justus Scaliger in his "Elenchus Trihæresii Nicolai Serarii" was the first to doubt...

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Hugo Grotius

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intellectuals in northern Europe, including Franciscus Junius, Joseph Justus Scaliger, and Rudolph Snellius. At age 16 (1599), he published his first...

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5th millennium BC

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the beginning of the current Julian Period, first described by Joseph Justus Scaliger in the sixteenth century. This Julian Period lasts 7,980 years until...

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List of editiones principes in Latin

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Olms Verlag. p. 43. ISBN 978-3-487-15970-6. Grafton, Antony (1983). Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Vol. 1: Textual Criticism...

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