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'''Gilbert Jack''' (Latinized: ''Jachaeus'', ''Jacchaeus''; c. 1578 – 1628) was |
'''Gilbert Jack''' (Latinized: ''Jachaeus'', ''Jacchaeus''; c. 1578 – April 17, 1628) was Scottish Aristotelian philosopher and a physician. |
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==Life== |
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Gilbert Jack (Latinized: Jachaeus, Jacchaeus; c. 1578 – April 17, 1628) was Scottish Aristotelian philosopher and a physician.
Life
He was born in Aberdeen, and studied at Marischal College under Robert Howie. In 1598 he went to the University of Helmstedt.[1][2]
He was professor, later of physics, at the University of Leiden, from 1605.[3] He was dismissed in 1619, suspected of sympathy with the Remonstrants;[4] he was reinstated in 1623.[1]
In 1626 he held the funeral oration for his deceased colleague Willebrord Snellius.
His students included Franck Burgersdijk and Adolph Vorstius.[5]
Works
- Institutiones Physicae (1614)
- Primae Philosophiae Institutiones (1616)
- Institutiones Medicae (1624)
The Institutiones Physicae is in nine books, and accepts the occult influence of the heavens.[6]
Notes
- ^ a b Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers (2000), article Jack, Gilbert, pp. 463-466.
- ^ http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/library/history/english-students/Helmstadt/Helmstadt.html
- ^ http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/fles/professors.html
- ^ Nicholas Thompson, The Long Reach of Reformation Irenicism: the Considerationes Modestae et Pacificae of William Forbes (1585—1634), p. 10
- ^ Gilbert Jack at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Lynn Thorndike, History of Magic and Experimental Science, vol. 12 (1923) p. 390.