Name Gilbert Jack Role Poet | Partner Linda Gregg | |
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Died November 13, 2012, Berkeley, California, United States Education San Francisco State University (1963), University of Pittsburgh, Peabody High School Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, National Book Award for Poetry Books Refusing Heaven, The Great Fires, Views of jeopardy, Monolithos, The Dance Most of All: Poems | ||
Gilbert Jack (Latinized: Jachaeus, Jacchaeus; c. 1578 – 1628) was a Scottish Aristotelian philosopher.
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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.
In 1626 he held the funeral oration for his deceased colleague Willebrord Snellius.
His students included Franck Burgersdijk and Adolph Vorstius.
Works
The Institutiones Physicae is in nine books, and accepts the occult influence of the heavens.
References
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