Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician and scholar (born 1484)

Julius Caesar Scaliger

Italian scholar, physician and philosopher (1484–1558)

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…