Zabarella, Jacopo (1533–1589)

Italian philosopher. A professor of logic at Padua, he was a leading Aristotelian of his time. His works on logic were published as Opera logica (1578), his work on natural history (which included studies of the methodology of the sciences) in De rebus naturalibus (1589). His controversial views on the nature of the soul were close to those of his contemporary, Pietro Pomponazzi. His theories on logic influenced the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.