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

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philosopher and physician.

Life

He was born in

Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...

, and studied at

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under Robert Howie. In 1598 he went to the

University of Helmstedt The University of Helmstedt (german: Universität Helmstedt; official Latin name: ''Academia Julia'', "Julius University"), was a university in Helmstedt in the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel that existed from 1576 until 1810. History Found ...

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

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. 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.

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, ''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