Gilbert Jack (Latinized as Gilbertus Jacch(a)eus; c. 1578 – April 17, 1628) was Scottish Ramist[1] philosopher and physician.
Life
editHe 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]
Works
edit- 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
edit- ^ Sarah Hutton, British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2015, p. 87.
- ^ a b Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers (2000), article Jack, Gilbert, pp. 463–466.
- ^ [1][permanent dead link]
- ^ "Professors of physics in Leiden (1582-1950)".
- ^ 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.