Scaliger,Julius Caesar

Scaliger, Julius Caesar. Exotericarum exercitationum liber xv. Lyon Vidua Antonii de Harsy, 1615. 

Julius Caesar Scaliger, 1484-1558. Italian physician, scholar, and poet. In 1557 he made a bnef allusion to a refractory metal which was probably platinum. His son Joseph Justus Scaliger was a famous philologist. 

Less than half a century after Balboa had stood silent on a peak in Darien, facing the unknown ocean, a famous Italian scholar and poet, Julius Caesar Scaliger, or della Scala, recorded the presence there of an unknown noble metal. In 1557 he made what is probably the first definite allusion to platinum. Girolamo Cardano (1501—1576), in his well-known work On Subtlety, had defined a metal as a substance which... 

The name and symbol come from Spanishplatina, meaning silver. Although this metal was used in pre-Columbian South America, it was identified by a European as a unique mineral in 1557 by Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558). Platinum was described in 1745 by Antonio de Ulloa (1716-1795), but he was prevented from publishing until 1748. Charles Wood independently described the metal in 1741, but it was not identified as a new element until 1750, when it was studied by William Watson (1715-1787). Platinum is very rare and is extensively used as jewelry, but in recent years it has been increasingly used in the electronics industry and as a catalyst, both for scientific research and in commercial applications such as antipollution devices (catalytic converters) and hydrogen fuel cells. 

JULIUS CAESAR SCALIGEr s REFORMULATION OF MIXTURE THEORY... 

Christoph Liithy, An Aristotelian Watchdog as Avant-garde Physicist Julius Caesar Scaliger, inMo / 84 (2001) 542-561. 

Julius Caesar Scaliger, Exotericarum exercitationum liber xv (Lyon Vidua Antonii de Harsy, 1615), p. 273 Misdo est moms corporum minimorum ad murnum contactum, ut fiat unio. ... 

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