Gilbert Jack

Gilbertus Jacchaeus (Leiden, 1614)

Gilbert Jack (Latinized: Jachaeus, Jacchaeus; c. 1578 – 1628) was a Scottish Aristotelian philosopher.

Life

He was born in Aberdeen, and studied at Marischal College under Robert Howie. In 1598 he went to the University of Helmstedt.[1][2]

He was professor, later of physics, at the University of Leiden, from 1605.[3] He was dismissed in 1619, suspected of sympathy with the Remonstrants;[4] he was reinstated in 1623.[1]

In 1626 he held the funeral oration for his deceased colleague Willebrord Snellius.

His students included Franck Burgersdijk and Adolph Vorstius.[5]

Works

The Institutiones Physicae is in nine books, and accepts the occult influence of the heavens.[6]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers (2000), article Jack, Gilbert, pp. 463-466.
  2. ↑ http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/library/history/english-students/Helmstadt/Helmstadt.html
  3. ↑ http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/fles/professors.html
  4. ↑ Nicholas Thompson, The Long Reach of Reformation Irenicism: the Considerationes Modestae et Pacificae of William Forbes (1585—1634), p. 10
  5. ↑ Gilbert Jack at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ Lynn Thorndike, History of Magic and Experimental Science, vol. 12 (1923) p. 390.

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