A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning, Book 4 · Chapter 1
CHAP. I.
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IO. Gagneius.
He hath written upon all the New Testament.
Rob. Gagwin.
He wrote the French History.Robertus Gagulnus … Galli… scriptor egregius, Ludovico XII. inprimis c… rus vir certè non in historia modò, sed in Oratoria quoque a… poetica facultate, omnique polit…ori litteratura egregiè versarus. A…ber… Miraei Elog. Belg.
Erasmus his intimate friend cals him a most discreet Historiographer.
He compares him to Salust and Livy, for purity of speech and composition of his History.
He was sent Embassadour by the King of France into Italy, England, and Germany.
He put out some Poems.
Petrus aScito illos libros esse compendium duorum ingentium voluminum, quibus titulum Pugionem fidei fecit auctor Raimundus Sebon Monachus Dominicus eximius Philologus, Scalig. Epist. …asaub. Vide Scalig. l. 1. Epist. 44. & 93. & Observat. Ioseph de Voisin in Proaemium Raym. Mart. Pug. Fid. Galatinus nec à se, quae scripsit, habuit, nec etiam rem intellexit. Notum est, illum Raymundi Martini Pugionem compilasse, & ex eo quaecunque habuit, in solidum hausisse. Qua de re ego …estari possum qui uttumque habeo. Ioan. Buxtorf. Simeoni de Muis. Vide Cartw. Prae…at. ad Annotat in Genes.Galatinus.
He takes all from Raimundus or Porchetus.
Galeacins Caraccielus bGenevam patre & conjuge ac liberis relictis concessit; cum aloquoties cum patre primum in Italia, & postea cum patre ac conjuge simul collocutus, nec illius reverentia, nec amore hujus, aut liberorum collo paterno haerentium blandiciis ac lacrymis adduci posset ut propositum mutaret. Postremo Genevam reversus, quasi uxor secum prima divortium fecisset, aliam duxit, primum consultis Pastoribus, sicuti scribunt, qui res eas prodidere. T…uan. Hist. Tom. 4. l. 85. Vide plura ibid., an Italian Marquesse. He renounced Pope…y, and became a good Protestant.
Beza hath written his Life.
Galen, a Learned Physitian of Pergamus, the chiefest Physitian next Hyppocrates.Anno Aetae Christi 143. Calvis. Chron. 138. Helv. Chron.
He coming to a shop and finding a Book under his name which he knew not of, nor never saw before, he wrote a Book de libris propriis.
The like hath Cardane and Caius of Cambridge done, that their genuine writingsHic cunctis Philosophis & Philologis utilis, loquitur ubique, puro, eleganti, simplici, & nunquam affectato sermone, non sine magna vocum & sententiarum supellectile: adeò, ut nulla satietate lectorem offendat: sed ubique progrediendi cupidum, rhetorico artificio demulceat, homo ad eloquentiam factus. In hoc praecepta quaedam philosophica rara & eximia, magisque illustria quàm apud ullum alium scriptorem invenias. Nhil ob…rudit lectori, quod non firmis rationibus demonstret, ac ejus contrarium refutet, qui ni moralia habet perpulchr…, affectibus moderandis. Ambitionem & avaritiam praecipuè insectatur, & de qualibet re doctè & eleganter disterit. Nullis non ad ingen…i Cultum ejus lectio utilis. Heur…. Dissertat. De Studio Medic. might be known, they having published many Works.
Some say he lived sevenscore years.
Galenus homo Graecus, & summi judicii a… doctrinae vir, ut si quis alius sui aut insequentis temporis. Caius de Pronunciat. Graec. & Lat. Ling.
His Philosophicall and Physicall Books were printed in Greek by Aldus Manutius at Venice, being distinguished into Tomes, with the most copious Prefaces of Camerarius, Gemaseus and Fuchsius most famous men: They were Printed at Basil in a great Folio.
Petrus aHe wrote an Oration contra Academiam Rami, and another of the praises of Francis the first.Gallandius. Turnebus in the 2d Book of his Adversaria, c. 1. much commends him.
Inter primos liberales disciplinas in Gallia jacentes politioris doctrinae luce illustravit. Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg.
Many of the famous learned men of France were his Scholars, amongst which Adrian Turnebus was one, as he ingenuously confesseth in his Adversaria.
Gulilaeus bSidereus Nuncius, magna, longéque admirabilia spectacula pandens, suspiciendaque proponens, maximè Philosophis, atque Astronomis, quae perspicilli nuper à se reperti beneficio sunt observata in facie Lunae. Leonis Allatii Apes Urbanae. Vide Blancani Chronol. clarorum Mathematicorum. Florentiae nobili ac vetere prosapia, non tamen legitimo toro, natus. Iani Nicii Eryt…raei Pinacotheca. Vide plura ibid.Galilaeus of Florence, a famous Philosopher and Mathematician.
He hath published many things in the Hetrurian and Latine Language.
Henricus cAnno Aerae Christi 1291. Helv. Chron. He…ricu… à Gandavo qui vulgo doctor sol…nis vocatur, floruit ante 350 annos. Illyr. Cat…l. Test. Verit l. 16. Nemo Belgarum Henrico Gandaven…i in Theologicis ac Philosophicis studiis, aut acrior aut subtilior fuit, ut qui admirandis Commentationum Voluminibus, communi Gymnas…orum consensu, Doctoris Solennis cognomen assecutus sit. Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica.Gandavensis.
He was born at Gaunt in the Low-Countries, and was a Doctor of S…rbonne and explained the Scriptures many years at Paris.
He wrote, besides Learned Commentaries upon Aristotles Physicks and Metaphysicks, a Theologicall summe, and a great Volume of Quodlibeticall Questions, as they called them.
Stephen dHomo is & doctissimus & va…errimus, Pontificiaeque factioni deditissimus, ita tamen ut temporibus fe accommodans vivente Henrico (qui in legationibus illius opera multum usus fuerat, & magnam authoritatem ipsi detulerat) iis quae semel legibus constituta essent, nunquam voluerit refragari. Godw. Rerum Anglic. Annal. l. 2. Edw. 6. Vir fuit procul dubio haud indoctus (quod opera ejus satis testantur) & ingenio ul…ra quam expediret acri, eo nisi rectius usus fuisset. Pro odio quo veram religionem pros…cutus est capitali, non solum multos bonos viros flammis tradidit absumendos, verum & in hoc omnibus ingenii nervis incubuit, …t Eliz…betham nuper Reginam quoquo modo tolleret è medio; frustra dicens, folia decuti, ramusculos amputari; …ad…eem hanc & haereticorum spem unicam excindendam ac sti…pi…ns eradicandam, alias nihil …os acturos. Godw. De Prae…ul. Ang. Comment. In lecto decumbentis Cadaver ita pu…ridum …aetidumque ante Mortem fuit, ut praesentibu… qui eum curabant nihil molestius ipso odore esse potuit. In ipso mortis momento haec verba ejaculatus est. Erravi cum Petro, non flevi cum Petro. Antiq. Britan p. 342.Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, a Scholar good enough, as his Works shew, but a great enemy to the Protestants in Q. Maries daies.
He died miserably, as Mr Fox and others bear witness.
He hath written a Book De vera Obedientia; and other Works in English.
Petrus Gassendus, Professor of the Mathematicks at Paris, the greatest Astronomer now living.Petrus Gassendus Di…iensis Ecclesiae …heologus, vir primatius, qui novo ingenii acumine, diserta orationis textura, & admirandorum monumentorum copia Europae innotuit. Leonis Allatii Apes Urbanae.
Thomas Gataker of the Gatakers of Gataker in Shropshire, a solid, judicious and pious Divine; as his divers learned Latine and English Treatises shew.
For the Hebrew he acknowledged himself much beholding to Lively in the 9th Ch. of the 2d Book of his Cinnus, and for the Greek to Iohn Boyse, c. 9. of the first Book. See his Life.
He was my worthy Friend, and receiving a kinde Letter from him not long before his death, he thus concluded it, Thus with hearty salutation of your self and yours, recommending your pious indeavours and indefatigable labours to the Lords gracious protection, I rest, Yours assured in him, T. G.
Lucas Gauricus.
He flourished at Venice Anno Christi 1550.
He was made Bishop for his Learning. He wrote many things. His Works are in two Tomes.
Pomponius Gauricus a Learned man also, was his brother.
He hath written De Sculptura.
Theodorus Gaza. Omnium sui temporis hominum doctissimus habitus est. Boiss. Icon.Anno Aerae Christi 1440. Helv. Chron. Historias Aristotelis de Animalibus, & …heophrasti de plantis, ita Latinas fecit, ut Romanae linguae facultatem, quum nova vocabula solerter e…ingeret, audaci, sed generosa translatione locupletavit. Paul Iov. Elog. Vir. Doct. Magnam incomparabilemque jacturam jampridem fecimus Pontifex Maxime in Theodoro Gaza, qui vir Graecus Latinos omnes in hoc munere scribendi interpretandique superavit. Is …i diu…ius vixisset: hac quoque parte locupletasset. Quod & fecit in libris illis absolutissimis de animalibus Aristotelis, & Theophrasti de stirpibus. Ab hujus scriptis adjutum me & fateor & praedico, hunc ego non magnopere in curiosius legi, quam M. Tullium, Plinium, Columellam, Varronem, Sen…cam, Apuleium, & cae…eros, quos in hoc genere Commentandi diligenter enoluere necessarium est. Polit. Epist. l. 12. Epist. 118. Her…o…. Berb. ad Sixtum quartum Pont. Max. Vide Pier. Valer. De litteratorum infelicitate, l. 4.
He was born in Greece, and brought up in Italy. Vir graecus, & ut doctis etiam videtur eruditissimus. Polit. Miscel. Cent. 1.
He did so happily translate Tullies Book de Senectute into Greek, that he hath excellently there represented the Majesty of Tullies eloquence.
When he presented to Sixtus Quartus the Pope of Rome Aristotles Books de Animalibus, translated out of Greek, which could not be done but by one most learned in both Languages, and the Book was adorned with golden plates. The Pope asked what the adorning of it cost, his servant telling him fourty pieces of gold, he commanded so many to be given him, and no more. Alsted. Encyclop.
Many of his Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.
Geber, a Learned Arabian, a great Chymist, and a most acute Writer, but veryArabs fuit Geber, quo nemo de rebus Chymicis scripsit eruditius, sublimius, doctius, meliori methodo, subtilius & acutius, ita tamen temperata tota illa su… scriptione & tractatione, ut lectores non doctiores sed ferè incertiores & magis dubios à se dimittat, cùm, si quis attendat, ultro deditaque opera & studio involuat, quae dicit & tradit omnia, ne quisquam unquam videlicet acquirat ex librorum ejus lectione. Centum annis post Mahumetem vixit, quem natione Graecum aiunt fidem abjurasse. Neand. Geog. part. 2. obscure.
The Alchimists have on set purpose (saith Theuet Vies des hommes Illustres l. 2.) obscured their manner of teaching, not only thereby to make their Science more wonderfull, but also to hinder the most part of men from attaining it. He saith there that William Postell his good Friend and companion of his Travels in the East, Greece and Asia, had the Almagest of Geber, which is an excellent Work in the Arabick Tongue, containing the Explanation of the state of the years, and Ceremonies, according to the Feasts and Solemnities of the Israelites, Nestorians, Persians and Syrians, which he had got from a Jew.
There is in Sion Colledge Alchimia, De Metallorum Investigatione & Perfectione.
De Fornacibus construendis Explicatio librorum Gebri, & Raym. Lullii.
Gelasius primus Papa.An. Dom. 496. Gelasius Cyricen, 476.
Gelasius the first of that name Pope, published five Books of the two Natures of Christ, against Eutiches & Nestorius. Two Books against Arius.
Sigism. Gelenius.Bohemus, vir diversis linguis & variarum rerum cognitione doctissimus. Ges…eri Bibliotheca.
He hath written Observat. & Emendat. in Tit. Livium.
Aulus Gellius. In the year of our Lord 98.
Ludovicus Vives censures him somewhat harshlyHomo rhapsodus plane, congestor potius quam digestor, & ostentator quam peritus, loquaculus sine eruditione: in verbis ac sententiis putidulus. Quae de signisicatu vocum disserit, sunt plerunque imperita ac falsa. Legendus est quidem, sed ita, ut te rem levem scias inspicete. Lud. Viv. de Tradend. Discip. l. 3. Aulus Gellius Romae Magistratum aliquando gessit. Noctium Atticarum (philologiam eruditam & variam) libros 20 reliquit, qui in manibus eruditorum hactenus versantur. Neand. Geog. part. 1., but Stephanus defends him in his Notes upon him.
His Book more pleaseth with its variety then its order.
Agellius potius quàm Gellius, dictus videtur scriptor noctium Atticarum. Voss. De Anal. l. 1. c. 6.
Aulus Gellius huic, legiturque Agellius illi,
Nominibus priscis heu malè tut… fides. Steph. Paschas. Icones.
Some dislike the title of his Book, because it shews the time when he wrote it, rather then the subject of the book.
Geminus.
Sir Henry Savill terms him Elegantissimum and acutissimum.
Georgius Gemistius Pletho, a Grecian, and great Scholar.
He put out a defence of Plato, he was Professour in Greece, and taught only those of his own Nation, amongst whom Bessario was one, many of whose Epistles to him are extant. Volat. Anthropol. l. 21.Ge…ma à Patria Frisius vulgo dictus, Lovanii Medicinam publicè professus, sed Mathematicarum scientiarum, quas domi docebat, rarâ scientiâ longè illustrior fuit. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l 16. Est autem Ge…ma apud Frisios nomen frequens & usitatum. Suffrid. Pet. De S…ript. Fris.
Gemma Frisius, a great Mathematician.
Ut gemma quaedam rarior, inter aevi sui Mathematicos illuxit. Quo nomine Carolo V. Caesari, harum artium non ignaro in primis gratus, saepe Bruxellam est evocatus, & vicissim ab aulicis Lovanii salutatus. Caestell. Vita Illust. Med. Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica.
He hath left many Writings in the Mathematicks.
De Orbis Divisione.
D… locorum describendorum ratione de que eorum distantiis inveniendis.
…s… an…ali Astronomici.
De usu Globi Astronomici.
De Radio Astronomico & Geometrico.
Also Cosmographia cum aliis Libellis.
De Astrolabio Catholico.
Qui liber ultimus erat eorum quos conscripserat, ad…ò ut fatis praereptus, non ipsemet, sed post ipsum filius Corn…lius Gemma eum absolverit, ideóque verisimile est, eum postrem… …uas ha… de re cogitationes & sensus, qui plaerunque sol…t meliores veriorés que esse, patefecisse. Tych. Brah. l. 2. De Comet… Anni 1577. c. 7.
Cornelius Gemma Poets, R…etor, Philosophus, & Medicus egregius accep…am à patre famam, praeclatis ingenii sui monumentis sic auxit, ut ut…r alteri plus debeat, merito ambigas. In libris certè, quos De Arte Cyclognomica, deque naturae divi…i… Characterismis edidit dum altissima Philosophiae mysteria recludit, se ipsum quodammodo superavit. Castellani Vit. Illust. Med. Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica., a famous Physitian and Philosopher of Lovain.
Illustris parentis Gemmae Frisii non obscurus filius. Tych. Brah. De Cometa, Anni 1377. l. 2. c. 6.
Eruditionis paternae haeres praesertim quoad Artes Mathematicus, quibus ille si quis alius excelluit, Id. ibid. l. 2. c. 10.
Reliquit & Cornelius filium Philippum Doctorem medicum, rarò certè exemplo, filium, patrem, av…m, & eruditos, & iisdem deditos studiis, ut in Italia nostro aevo Man…tios flornisse. Aubertus Miraeus Elog. Belg.
Gilb. Genebrard, a Divine of Paris, and the Kings Professor of Hebrew: AEruditum sed pe…ulantissimum pro cacitatis animal. Monta…t. Praefat. ad Apparat. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tomo 5t• lib. 119. good Hebrician, but a most petulant Writer.
By whom (saith B. And.) it is verified that much Learning and railing may be accidents in one subject.
Gennadius Scholaris. 1450.Gennadius Massiliensis floruit in fine quinti seculi sub annum Domini 490. Forb…. Instruct. Histor. Theol. l. 13. c. ….
Innocentius Gentiletus.
He hath put out Examen Concilii Tridentini.
An Apology for the French Christians of the Reformed Religion, both in French and Latine.Apologia pr… Christianis Gallis religionis reformatae.
Apologie pour les Chrestiens de France de l… Religion Evangelique on Reformee found…e sur la Saincte Escritur… & approveè par la raison, & par les a…ci…s Canons.
Alberi…us Gentilis, an eloquent Italian, the Regins Professor of Civil Law in Oxford.
His Works are most of them mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue and the Appendix.
Iohn Gerhard, Doctor of Divinity, and Professor in the University of Iena.Doctor Gerhard…, quem unum pro omnibus affer…m, quia quicquid Chemnitius, Hunnius, & alii habent, accurate collegit. Albertinus De Sacramento Eucharistiae l. 1. c. 13. Libellus cedro dignus meditationum quinquaginta sacrarum: quo fato fuerit exceptus, tot versiones, Germanicae, Gallicae, Anglicae, Italicae; tot editiones, littetis exscriptae certissime vel me racente, proclamant. Non magnus quidem e…t, verum aureolus & ad verbum ediscendus. Mich. Dilher. Laudai. Funch. Venerem illam Evangelicam à magn… Chemnitio pingi captum, à disertissimo Lysero continuatam, quis, praeter Gerhardum, attigit? Hic erat alter ille Apell…s, qui absolveret. Id. ibid.
A laborious and Learned Lutheran, as his Supplement of Cheminitius his Harmony, and his Common places of Divinity, Commentaries on the Hebr. and Peter, Meditationes sacrae shew.
At the end of Gerhardi Patrologia, there are Funerall Orations had in divers Universities at Gerhards death, where he is deservedly magnified.