About Gilbert Jack
Lived 1578 – 1628 (aged 49–50). Gilbert Jack was a Scottish philosopher, ethicist, physicist, rhetorician, naturalist and theologian.
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 Aberdeen, and studied at Marischal College under Robert Howie. In 1598 he went to the University of Helmstedt.
He was professor, later of physics, at the University of Leiden, from 1605. He was dismissed in 1619, suspected of sympathy with the Remonstrants; he was reinstated in 1623.
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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Scottish philosopher
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Gilbert Jack was born in 1578 in Aberdeen.
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Gilbert Jack died on 18 April 1628.
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Gilbert Jack was a philosopher, ethicist, physicist, rhetorician, naturalist and theologian.
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Gilbert Jack was Scottish.
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