1484-1558 Italian physician and humanist who established his intellectual reputation with an attack on Erasmus's criticism of Cicero. After a minor military career, Scaliger studied at the University of Padua. He traveled to France and adopted...

Julius Caesar Scaliger or Giulio Cesare della Scala (April 23, 1484 – October 21, 1558), was an Italian scholar and physician spending a large part of his career in France. He employed the techniques and discoveries of Renaissance humanism to...

Introduction: The (in)compatibility of Aristotelian and corpuscularian theories of matter There are many good reasons for seeing Aristotelian hylemorphism and atomism as diametrically opposed theories of matter. Aristotle himself had forcefully combatted the physical model of Leucippus and Democritus, whose ontology consisted...

Faint praise for Caesar: It's better than a thousand recycled pop-catalog Broadway musicals JULIUS CAESAR By William Shakespeare Belasco Theatre 11 West44th Street 212-239-6200 CHOPPERS OVER PHILIPPI Most of Shakespeare's plays require an audience to make one...