Gilberti Jacchaei institutiones physicae..
Jacchaeus, Gilbertus,1585-1628.
Amstelrodami, : Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium.,
M D CXLIV. [1644]
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. "Institutiones physicae" was first published in 1615, this is the third edition published in Amsterdam by Elzevir.
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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. "Institutiones physicae" was first published in 1615, this is the third edition published in Amsterdam by Elzevir.
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