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Gilbert Jack (Latinized as Gilbertus Jacch(a)eus; c. 1578 – April 17, 1628) was Scottish Ramist[1] philosopher and physician.
He was born in Aberdeen, and studied at Marischal College under Robert Howie. In 1598 he went to the University of Helmstedt.[2][3]
He was professor, later of physics, at the University of Leiden, from 1605.[4] He was dismissed in 1619, suspected of sympathy with the Remonstrants;[5] he was reinstated in 1623.[2]
In 1626 he held the funeral oration for his deceased colleague Willebrord Snellius.
He died in Leiden.
His students included Franck Burgersdijk and Adolph Vorstius.[6]
The Institutiones Physicae is in nine books, and accepts the occult influence of the heavens.[7]
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