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An Aristotelian Watchdog as Avant-Guarde Physicist: Julius Caesar Scaliger. (Monist).(Brief Article)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20010301
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An Aristotelian Watchdog as Avant-Guarde Physicist: Julius Caesar Scaliger, CHRISTOPH LUTHY

The Exotericae exercitationes de subtilitate (1557) by Julius Caesar Scaliger was until 1700 one of most cited works in natural philosophy. What is striking about its reception is that though Scaliger presents his book as a defense, against Girolamo Cardano, of Aristotelian physics, northern European readers found it highly innovative. It notably influenced such early seventeenth century atomists as Daniel Sennert, David Gorlaeus, Sebastien Basson, and Joachim Jungius. This article ...

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