Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Gilbert Jack
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Gilbert Jack (Latinized as Gilbertus Jacch(a)eus; c. 1578 – April 17, 1628) was a Scottish Ramist[1] philosopher and physician.
Life
He was born in Aberdeen, and studied at Marischal College under Robert Howie. In 1598 he went to the University of Helmstedt.[2][3]
He was professor, later of physics, at the University of Leiden, from 1605.[4] He was dismissed in 1619, suspected of sympathy with the Remonstrants;[5] he was reinstated in 1623.[2]
In 1626 he held the funeral oration for his deceased colleague Willebrord Snellius.
He died in Leiden.
His students included Franck Burgersdijk and Adolph Vorstius.[6]
Remove ads
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.[7]
Notes
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads