General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . As a philosopher, he adhered to theopinions of the ancients, but with tokens of afree spirit, and elevation above vulgar pre-judices. As a physician, he has some good ob-servations on the causes of epidemic diseases inthe countries where he practised, and also onthe gout, rheumatism, lues venerea, &c. Hismost celebrated work is an elegant and learnedperformance, De situ Iapygiae, to which isannexed a description of th
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . As a philosopher, he adhered to theopinions of the ancients, but with tokens of afree spirit, and elevation above vulgar pre-judices. As a physician, he has some good ob-servations on the causes of epidemic diseases inthe countries where he practised, and also onthe gout, rheumatism, lues venerea, &c. Hismost celebrated work is an elegant and learnedperformance, De situ Iapygiae, to which isannexed a description of the city of Gallipoli;the whole containing much curious matter ingeography and civil and natural history. Hisother principal works are, Dc Situ Elemen-torum; De Situ Terrarum ; De Mari &Aquis : Successi dell armata Turchescanella cirta dOtranto dell anno 148c. Moreri,1iraboschi. Halleri BMoth. Med.—A. GAL ATTN, Peter, a learned FYanciscanmonk, who flourished at the beginning of thesixteenth century, and was living in the year1632. He acquired considerable reputation bydifferent theological and literary productions,particularly by his De Arcanis Catholicse Ve- ^~n. GAL ( 277 ) GAL ritatis, Libri XII; quibus pleraque ReligionisChristiance Capita contra Judxos, tam ex Scrip-turis veteris Testament! authenricis, quam exTalmudicorum Cornmentariis, confirmare & conatus est. The first edition ofthis work appeared in the year 1513, and metwith so favourable a reception, that it after-wards underwent several impressions at Basil,Frankfort, &c The best editions are thosepublished at Frankfort in 1612 and 1672, infolio, to which is added a treatise of the learnedJohn Reuchiin, entitled De Cabala, seu desvmbolica Receptione, Dialogus tribus Librisabsolutus. Galatins work has been frequentlyquoted byprotestant as well as catholic would have been more to the authors credit,however, if he had ingenuously apprised hisreaders of the use which he made of Pouchetstreatise De
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