Metaphysicae seu primae philosophiae institutiones /
Jacchaeus, Gilbertus,1585-1628.
Günter, Augustine,active 1653,former owner.StEdNL
Schleusingae : Excusae typis Petri Schmidij, impensis Johannis reiffenbergeri bibliopolae Jenensis.,
Anno M D C XXXVIII. [1638]
The Scottish philosopher and physician Gilbert Jack (Jacchaeus) was born in Aberdeen and studied at the city's Marischal College He went on to study on the Continent, first, from 1598, at the Lutheran University of Helmstadt and from 1601 at Herborn, where he was appointed professor extraordinarius. In 1603 he moved to the university at Leiden in the Netherlands, where he remained for the rest of his life, studying and teaching philosophy and physics. He became a friend of leading Dutch intellectuals such as Caspar Barlaeus, Hugo Grotius, and G. J. Vossius. Jack was an Aristotelian philosopher. "Primae philosophicae institutiones" drew on his philosophy lectures at Leiden and was first published in 1616.
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The Scottish philosopher and physician Gilbert Jack (Jacchaeus) was born in Aberdeen and studied at the city's Marischal College He went on to study on the Continent, first, from 1598, at the Lutheran University of Helmstadt and from 1601 at Herborn, where he was appointed professor extraordinarius. In 1603 he moved to the university at Leiden in the Netherlands, where he remained for the rest of his life, studying and teaching philosophy and physics. He became a friend of leading Dutch intellectuals such as Caspar Barlaeus, Hugo Grotius, and G. J. Vossius. Jack was an Aristotelian philosopher. "Primae philosophicae institutiones" drew on his philosophy lectures at Leiden and was first published in 1616.
Manuscript signature "Augustine Günter Argent 1653".
Philosophy
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