* Dennis Cote:
> From the wikipedia article you cited:
>
> Note: although many references say that the Julian in "Julian day"
> refers to Scaliger's father, Julius Scaliger, in the introduction to
> Book V of his Opus de Emendatione Temporum ("Work on the Emendation of
> Time") he states, "Iulianum vocavimus: quia ad annum Iulianum dumtaxat
> accomodata est", which translates more or less as "We have called it
> Julian merely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This
> Julian refers to Julius Caesar, who introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC.
>
> I can't vouch for the veracity of this note, but he he seems to know
> what he is talking about and has given what is purported to be a
> reference from the original author that backs his claim (as best I can
> tell from the quoted Latin and its translation). As always you have to
> take everything on wikipedia with a grain of salt, but this looks
> authoritative.
"Calendrical Calculations" by Reingold and Dershowitz has the following
to say about the matter:
| It is often claimed [...] that Scaliger named the [Julian] period [a
| method of counting years] after his father, the Renaissance physician
| Julius Cæsar Scaliger, but this claim is not borne out by examination
| of Scaliger's great work, /De Emendatione Temporum/, from which the
| section quote above [Iulianam vocavimus: quia ad annum Iulianum
| dumtaxat accommodata est] is taken.
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