Gilbert Jack ( Latinized as ''Gilbertus Jacch(a)eus''; c. 1578 – April 17, 1628) was Scottish Ramist 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. Andrew Pyle (editor), ''Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers'' (2000), article Jack, Gilbert, pp. 463–466. He was professor, later of physics, at the University of Leiden, from 1605. He was dismissed in 1619, suspected of sympathy with the

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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. Lynn Thorndike, ''History of Magic and Experimental Science'', vol. 12 (1923) p. 390.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jack, Gilbert 1570s births 1628 deaths Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Scottish philosophers