Gilbert Jack ( Latinized as ''Gilbertus Jacch(a)eus''; c. 1578 – April 17, 1628) was a Scottish Ramist philosopher and physician.

Life

He was born in

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, and studied at

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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

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, from 1605. He was dismissed in 1619, suspected of sympathy with the

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; he was reinstated in 1623. In 1626 he held the funeral oration for his deceased colleague

Willebrord Snellius Willebrord Snellius (born Willebrord Snel van Royen) (13 June 158030 October 1626) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, commonly known as Snell. His name is usually associated with the law of refraction of light known as Snell's law. The ...

. He died in

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. 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.

Lynn Thorndike Lynn Thorndike (24 July 1882, in Lynn, Massachusetts, US – 28 December 1965, New York City) was an American historian of History of science in the Middle Ages, medieval science and alchemy. He was the son of a clergyman, Edward R. Thorndike, an ...

, ''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 17th-century Scottish philosophers