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Jack, Gilbert

Born: Aberdeen, 1578

Died: Leiden, 18 April 1628

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Gilbert Jack was a sixteenth-century philosopher and physician who was born in Scotland but eventually attained celebrity in the Netherlands as one of the Low Countries’ most famous metaphysicians.

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  • Jack, Gilbert. 1614. Institutiones physicae. Schleusignae.

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  • Jack, Gilbert. 1616. Primae philosophiae sive institutionem metaphysicarum libri sex. Lyon.

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  • Jack, Gilbert. 1624. Institutiones medicae. Lyon.

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  • Pyle, Andrew (ed.). 2000. The dictionary of seventeenth-century British philosophers, 463–466. Bristol: Thoemmes Press.

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  • Schmutz, Jacob. Scholasticon (29 Sept 2014). http://www.scholasticon.fr/

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Salas, V.M. (2015). Jack, Gilbert. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_509-1

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