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Joseph Scaliger : a study in the history of classical scholarship / Anthony Grafton.
Van Pelt Library PA85.S3 G7 1983 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grafton, Anthony
- Series:
- Oxford-Warburg studies
- Oxford-Warburg studies.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609.
- Scaliger, Joseph Juste.
- Classicists--France--Biography.
- Classicists.
- Humanists--France--Biography.
- Humanists.
- Biography.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- volumes ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983-
- Summary:
- This book describes the later life of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the most original scholar of the late Renaissance. It concentrates on his efforts to date the main events of ancient and medieval history, a study that required him to use both astronomical data and philological methods. Volume I of this study was published in 1983, and received wide critical attention.
- Contents:
- 1. Textual criticism and exegesis.
- v.2. Historical Chronology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 019814850X
- OCLC:
- 8785826
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