The 11th edn of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (Cambridge, 1910–11), xxiv, 284, characterizes J. J. Scaliger as “the greatest scholar of modern times”.
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This belief is extraordinarily widespread; typical of many assertions is that of Atlas of the universe (London, 1961), 158: “Introduced by Scaliger in 1582 and named by him after his father (and therefore not related to the Julian calendar)”.
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GraftonAnthony, Joseph Scaliger: A study in the history of classical scholarship (Oxford, 1993), 249–50. With reference to the claim that Scaliger named the Julian Period after his father, Grafton cites the Latin of De emendatione temporum, “Iulianum vocavimus, quia ad annum Iulianum duntaxat accommodata est”, and remarks in a footnote: “Is it necessary to point out that the name of the Julian Period, as this passage shows, was not derived from that of Scaliger's father?”.
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HerschelJohn F. W., Outlines of astronomy (London, 1849), 632, 634.
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FliegelH. F.Van FlandernT. C., “A machine algorithm for processing calendar dates”, Communications of the Association of Computing Machines, xi (1968), 657, reprinted in SeidelmannP. K., Explanatory supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (Mill Valley, Calif., 1992), 604.
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HagenJ. C., “Light-variations of S Persei and T Arietis…”, Astronomical journal, x (1890–91), 115–18.
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ChandlerS. C., “Second catalogue of variable stars”, Astronomical journal, xiii (1893–94), 89–110.
