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Joseph Justus Scaliger

Opus novum de emendatione temporum in octo libros tributum, 1583

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€ 600 - 800

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€ 1.226

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Information

Lutetiae (Paris), Mammertum Patissonium, 1583. In folio. Title page and text printed in red and black, two folded tables and numerous tables in the text, presence of handwritten notes in the margins, scattered redness, some damp spots, slight woodworm work on the inside margin of the flyleaf and the title page. Half leather binding with corners, gold title on the spine within a red leather insert, defects on the hinge.

Specialist Notes

First edition of Scaliger's most important work . De Emendatione Temporum revolutionized ancient chronology; it showed that ancient history was not limited to that of the Greeks and Romans, but also to that of the Persians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, and to that of the Jews, until then treated as “sacred history,” a separate subject... Scaliger's achievements in 'A Correct System of Chronology' surpass those of his contemporaries: it is difficult today to imagine how history could be written without an adequate and continuous chronology, based on Scaliger's synchronistic principles” (PMM). Includes Annotationes in computum æthiopum , pp. 338-349.
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