Gilbert Jack Explained

Gilbert Jack (Latinized as Gilbertus Jacch(a)eus; c. 1578 – April 17, 1628) was 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.

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]

External links

• • Significant Scots

Notes and References

1. Sarah Hutton, British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2015, p. 87.
2. [Andrew Pyle (philosopher)|Andrew Pyle]
3. http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/library/history/english-students/Helmstadt/Helmstadt.html
4. Web site: Professors of physics in Leiden (1582-1950).
5. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~wad005/documents/forbes.pdf Nicholas Thompson, The Long Reach of Reformation Irenicism: the Considerationes Modestae et Pacificae of William Forbes (1585–1634), p. 10
6. [Lynn Thorndike]