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Joseph Justus Scaliger (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.[1]

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  1. 89 relations: Achaemenid Empire, Adrianus Turnebus, Agen, Amsterdam, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Anthony Grafton, Arabic, Aristotle, Astronomy, Babylonia, Bordeaux, Calendar, Caspar Schoppe, Catullus, Charles Nisard, Château, Chronology, Cicero, Classical antiquity, College of Guienne, Daniël Heinsius, Epoch, Eusebius, Franciscus Dousa, Geneva, Grammar, Greek language, Greeks, Guillaume Postel, Hebrew language, Henry IV of France, History of ancient Egypt, History of scholarship, Homer, Hugo Grotius, Huguenots, Imperfect induction, Iran, Isaac Casaubon, Jacques Cujas, Jakob Bernays, Jean Daurat, Jean de Monluc, Jesuits, Jewish history, Jews, John Sandys (classicist), Julius Caesar Scaliger, ... Expand index (39 more) »

  2. 16th-century French historians
  3. Chronologists
  4. College of Guienne alumni
  5. French book and manuscript collectors

Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.

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Adrianus Turnebus

Adrianus Turnebus (Adrien Turnèbe or Tournebeuf; 151212 June 1565) was a French classical scholar. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Adrianus Turnebus are French classical scholars.

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Agen

The commune of Agen is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Anthony Grafton

Anthony Thomas Grafton (born May 21, 1950) is an American historian of early modern Europe and the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, where he is also the Director the Program in European Cultural Studies.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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Babylonia

Babylonia (𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran).

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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Calendar

A calendar is a system of organizing days.

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Caspar Schoppe

Caspar Schoppe (27 May 1576 – 19 November 1649) was a German catholic controversialist and scholar.

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Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 – 54 BC), known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic.

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Charles Nisard

Charles Nisard (10 January 1808 – 16 July 1890) was a French writer and critic, and member of the Institut.

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Château

A château (plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.

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Chronology

Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chrónos, "time"; and -λογία, -logia) is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.

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College of Guienne

The College of Guienne (Collège de Guyenne) was a school founded in 1533 in Bordeaux.

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Daniël Heinsius

Daniel Heinsius (or Heins) (9 June 158025 February 1655) was one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Daniël Heinsius are academic staff of Leiden University.

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Epoch

In chronology and periodization, an epoch or reference epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era.

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Eusebius

Eusebius of Caesarea (Εὐσέβιος τῆς Καισαρείας; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek Syro-Palestinian historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Eusebius are Chronologists.

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Franciscus Dousa

Franciscus Dousa (Latinized from Frans van der Does; 5 March 1577, Leiden – 11 December 1630, Leiden) was a Dutch classical scholar at Leiden University.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

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Grammar

In linguistics, a grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Greeks

The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..

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Guillaume Postel

Guillaume Postel (25 March 1510 – 6 September 1581) was a French linguist, Orientalist, astronomer, Christian Kabbalist, diplomat, polyglot, professor, religious universalist, and writer. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Guillaume Postel are 16th-century French writers.

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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Henry IV of France

Henry IV (Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.

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History of ancient Egypt

The history of ancient Egypt spans the period from the early prehistoric settlements of the northern Nile valley to the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC.

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History of scholarship

The history of scholarship is the historical study of fields of study which are not covered by the English term "science" (cf., history of science), but are covered by, for example, the German term "Wissenschaft" (i.e., all kinds of academic studies).

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius (10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Hugo de Groot or Huig de Groot, was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Huguenots are French Protestants.

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Imperfect induction

The imperfect induction is the process of inferring from a sample of a group to what is characteristic of the whole group.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Isaac Casaubon

Isaac Casaubon (18 February 1559 – 1 July 1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon are French classical scholars.

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Jacques Cujas

Jacques Cujas (or Cujacius) (Toulouse, 1522 – Bourges, 4 October 1590) was a French legal expert.

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Jakob Bernays

Jacob Bernays (11 September 182426 May 1881) was a German philologist and philosophical writer.

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Jean Daurat

Jean Daurat (Occitan: Joan Dorat; Latin: Auratus) (3 April 15081 November 1588) was a French poet, scholar and a member of a group known as The Pléiade. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Jean Daurat are French classical scholars.

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Jean de Monluc

Jean de Monluc, 1508 to 12 April 1579, was a French nobleman, clergyman, diplomat and courtier.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Jewish history

Jewish history is the history of the Jews, their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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John Sandys (classicist)

Sir John Edwin Sandys ("Sands"; 19 May 1844 – 6 July 1922) was an English classical scholar.

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Julius Caesar Scaliger

Julius Caesar Scaliger (23 April 1484 – 21 October 1558), or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France.

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Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the philosophy and theory of law.

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Justus Lipsius

Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips or Joost Lips; October 18, 1547 – March 23, 1606) was a Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher, and humanist. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Justus Lipsius are 16th-century writers in Latin.

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La Roche-Posay

La Roche-Posay is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.

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Leiden University

Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Leiden University Library

Leiden University Libraries is a library founded in 1575 in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Limousin (province)

Limousin (Lemosin) is a former province of the Kingdom of France.

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Marcus Manilius

Marcus Manilius originally hailing from Syria, was a Roman poet, astrologer, and author of a poem in five books called Astronomica.

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Mark Pattison (academic)

Mark Pattison (10 October 1813 – 30 July 1884) was an English author and a Church of England priest.

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Martianus Capella

Martianus Minneus Felix Capella was a jurist, polymath and Latin prose writer of late antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the system of the seven liberal arts that structured early medieval education.

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Muretus

Muretus is the Latinized name of Marc Antoine Muret (12 April 1526 – 4 June 1585), a French humanist who was among the revivers of a Ciceronian Latin style and is among the usual candidates for the best Latin prose stylist of the Renaissance. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Muretus are 16th-century French male writers.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New chronology (Fomenko)

The new chronology is a pseudohistorical theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Nicolaus Copernicus are 16th-century writers in Latin.

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Organon

The Organon (Ὄργανον, meaning "instrument, tool, organ") is the standard collection of Aristotle's six works on logical analysis and dialectic.

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Philippic

A philippic is a fiery, damning speech, or tirade, delivered to condemn a particular political actor.

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Poitou

Poitou (Poitevin: Poetou) was a province of west-central France whose capital city was Poitiers.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Prince of Orange

Prince of Orange (or Princess of Orange if the holder is female) is a title associated with the sovereign Principality of Orange, in what is now southern France and subsequently held by the stadtholders of, and then the heirs apparent of, the Netherlands.

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Propertius

Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Quarto

Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4º) is the format of a book or pamphlet produced from full sheets printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves.

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Reformed Christianity

Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.

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Richard Copley Christie

Richard Copley Christie (22 July 1830 – 9 January 1901) was an English lawyer, university teacher, philanthropist and bibliophile.

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Richard Thomson (theologian)

Richard Thomson, sometimes spelled Thompson, was a Dutch-born English theologian and translator.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Scaliger

The House of Della Scala, whose members were known as Scaligeri or Scaligers (from the Latinized de Scalis), was the ruling family of Verona and mainland Veneto (except for Venice) from 1262 to 1387, for a total of 125 years.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Second plague pandemic

The second plague pandemic was a major series of epidemics of plague that started with the Black Death, which reached medieval Europe in 1346 and killed up to half of the population of Eurasia in the next four years.

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Sextus Pompeius Festus

Sextus Pompeius Festus, usually known simply as Festus, was a Roman grammarian who probably flourished in the later 2nd century AD, perhaps at Narbo (Narbonne) in Gaul.

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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

The St.

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States General of the Netherlands

The States General of the Netherlands (Staten-Generaal) is the supreme bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) and the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer).

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The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.

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Tibullus

Albius Tibullus (BC BC) was a Latin poet and writer of elegies.

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Toulouse

Toulouse (Tolosa) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.

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Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe (born Tyge Ottesen Brahe,; 14 December 154624 October 1601), generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer of the Renaissance, known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations. Joseph Justus Scaliger and Tycho Brahe are 16th-century writers in Latin.

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University of Geneva

The University of Geneva (French: Université de Genève) is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne, was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution.

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Valence, Drôme

Valence (Valença) is a commune in southeastern France, the prefecture of the Drôme department and within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

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Verona

Verona (Verona or Veròna) is a city on the River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants.

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See also

16th-century French historians

Chronologists

College of Guienne alumni

French book and manuscript collectors

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Justus_Scaliger

Also known as De emendatione temporum, Iosephus Scaliger, J J Scaliger, Joseph Juste Scaliger, Joseph Scaliger, Josephus Scaliger, Justus Scaliger, Opus Novum de emendatione temporum, Scaliger, Joseph Justus, Thesaurum temporum.

, Jurisprudence, Justus Lipsius, La Roche-Posay, Leiden University, Leiden University Library, Limousin (province), Marcus Manilius, Mark Pattison (academic), Martianus Capella, Muretus, Netherlands, New chronology (Fomenko), Nicolaus Copernicus, Organon, Philippic, Poitou, Poland, Prince of Orange, Propertius, Protestantism, Quarto, Reformed Christianity, Richard Copley Christie, Richard Thomson (theologian), Rome, Scaliger, Scotland, Second plague pandemic, Sextus Pompeius Festus, St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, States General of the Netherlands, The Hague, Tibullus, Toulouse, Tycho Brahe, University of Geneva, University of Paris, Valence, Drôme, Verona.