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Julius Caesar Scaliger
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<p>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 <a href="/facts/Renaissance_humanism/wUYJgfR5">Renaissance humanism</a> to defend <a href="/facts/Aristotelianism/wEhHXC5B">Aristotelianism</a> against the <a href="/facts/New_Learning/BPQsw6ep">New Learning</a>. In spite of his contentious disposition, his contemporary reputation was high. <a href="/facts/Jacques_Auguste_de_Thou/npfEM4lH">Jacques Auguste de Thou</a> claimed that none of the ancients could be placed above him and that he had no equal in his own time. </p>