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CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 444 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASE, See also:JOHN (d. 1600) , See also:English Aristotelian See also:scholar and physician, was See also:born at See also:Woodstock. He was educated at See also:Oxford,and elected to a fellowship at St John's See also:College, which he was obliged to resign in consequence of his See also:Roman See also:Catholic sympathies. He subsequently opened a philosophical school in Oxford, which was largely attended. He enjoyed a See also:great reputation as a logician and dialectician, and was in addition an authority on See also:music and a distinguished physician. He is de-scribed as " a See also:man of an See also:innocent, See also:meek, religious and studious See also:life," an agreeable conversationalist, an enthusiastic teacher, and a great favourite with his pupils. Most of his See also:works were commentaries on various See also:treatises of See also:Aristotle (See also:Organon, See also:Ethics, Politics, Oeconomics, Physics) under curious titles; they enjoyed a large circulation during his See also:time, and were frequently reprinted. He was also the author of The Praise of Musicke (1586), dedicated to See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Raleigh.

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