James Martin (Jacobus Martinus, Jacques Martin) (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1577) was a Scottish philosophical writer and early

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, ''History of Magic and Experimental Science'' Part 10 (2003 reprint), p. 238.

Life

He was a native of

Dunkeld Dunkeld (, sco, Dunkell, from gd, Dùn Chailleann, "fort of the Caledonians") is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The location of a historic cathedral, it lies on the north bank of the River Tay, opposite Birnam. Dunkeld lies close to ...

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, and is said to have been educated at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in contin ...

. A James Martin, whose college is not mentioned, commenced M.A. at Oxford on 31 March 1522. :s:Martin, James (fl. 1577) (DNB00) He was professor of philosophy at Paris. In 1556 he was proctor of the Germans in the

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, and in May 1557 was chosen by them to negotiate with the king concerning a tax which he desired to impose on the university. He subsequently is said to have become professor at

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. He was dead by 1584.

Works

Martin wrote a 1577 treatise in refutation of some of

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical Greece, Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatet ...

's dogmas in ''

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''. Another edition appeared, with a preface by William Temple.Published at Cambridge in 1584, 8vo, and again at Frankfort in 1589. A reply by

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appeared at Frankfort in 1591. Other treatises by Martin are vaguely mentioned by Thomas Tanner in his ''Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica'' (1718), viz.: 1. ''In Artem Memoriae'', Paris. 2. ''De Intelligentiis Motricibus'', Turin. 3. ''In Libros Aristotelis de Ortu et Interitu'', Paris, 1555. None of them appear to be now extant.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, James Scottish philosophers People from Perth and Kinross 16th-century Scottish people