Thomas Gale
Thomas Gale (* 1635 in Scruton, Yorkshire; ? † 7 or 8 April 1702 in York ) was an English classical scholar and cleric.
Gale attended Westminster School and then Trinity College, Cambridge. Finally, where he was first Fellow in 1666 and Regius Professor of Greek. In 1672 he was appointed master of the Saint Paul's high school, 1676 Canons of St Paul's Cathedral, in 1677 a member of the Royal Society and in 1697 the Dean of York. As a philologist Gale has published and commented on various mythographic writings and Greek and Latin authors. In a History of Philosophy (1670 ) he introduced the term Neo-Platonism for the late ancient Platonism. The principal merit, however, the collection and editing of ancient sources for early English history, he is credited. Gale is supposed to be the author of the inscription on the London Monument, where the Catholics are accused of having caused the Great Fire.
Writings
- (Ed.): Opuscula physica et ethica mythologica. Grace et latine. Seriem eorum sistit pagina praefationem proxime sequens. Wetstein, Amsterdam 1675, and 1688.
- (Ed.): Historiae Scriptores poeticae antiqui. Muguet -Scott, Paris 1675th
- (Ed.): Iamblichi Liber de mysteriis Aegyptiorum. 1678th
- (Ed.): Ψαλτήριον. Psalter. Juxta copy Alexandrinum editio nova, Grace & Latine. Sheldon, Oxford 1678th
- (Ed.): Rerum Anglicarum Scriptorum veterum. Tom. Sheldon ..., Oxford 1684th
- (Ed.): Historiae Scriptores Anglicanae Quinque. Sheldon, Oxford 1687 ( Rerum Scriptores Anglicarum veteres, 2).
- (Ed.): Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo- Danicae Scriptores XV. Sheldon, Oxford 1691 ( Rerum Scriptores Anglicarum veteres. 3).