Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism - A Study of His Exotericae Exercitationes

This monograph is the first to analyze Julius Caesar Scaliger's Exotericae Exercitationes (1557). In order to make this late-Renaissance work accessible to modern readers, Kuni Sakamoto conducted a detailed textual analysis and revealed the basic tenets of Scaliger's philosophy.

About the author

Kuni Sakamoto, Ph.D. (2012) in history of science, University of Tokyo, is an affiliated researcher at the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on early modern natural philosophy, with a particular focus on its interaction with theology and philology.

Product details

• Authors: Kuni Sakamoto
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2016
• EAN: 9789004310094
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31009-4
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Series: Medieval and Early Modern Phil
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General