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Scaliger

American  
[skal-i-jer] / ˈskæl ɪ dʒər /

noun

  1. Joseph Justus 1540–1609, French scholar and critic.

  2. his father Julius Caesar, 1484–1558, Italian scholar, philosopher, and critic in France.

Scaliger British  
/ ˈskælɪdʒə /

noun

  1. Joseph Justus (ˈdʒʌstəs). 1540–1609, French scholar, who revolutionized the study of ancient chronology by his work De Emendatione temporum (1583)

  2. his father, Julius Caesar. 1484–1558, Italian classical scholar, and writer on biology and medicine

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