Franco Burgersdijk's teaching helped raise the profile of logic and philosophy in Dutch universities.

Burgersdijk spent much of his childhood on a farm, and attended the Latin Schools at both Amersfoort (1604—1606) and Delft Gymnasium (1606—1610).

His growing interest in debate led him to become a mentee of Gisbertus Voetius, the vice principal of Staten Collegie.

The reason for Burgersdijk's popularity stems from his first book, Idea Philosophiae Naturalis, which became the model for his later writings.

They received their pedagogical importance from the efficient adaptation of the Corpus Aristotelicum to the standards of the humanistic method.

During the truce between the Dutch and Spanish armies in 1609, followers of theology professor Jacob Arminius requested the States of Holland to review certain religious issues.

However, this brought them into conflict with the Stadtholder Maurice, Prince of Orange, who staged a coup and gained control of the entire country, thus ending the political skirmish.

The religious conflict shortly ended after the international Synod of Dort ruled in favor of Gomarists on May 9, 1619.

The aim was to familiarize the students with the "basics" of the subject, which, as stated in the introduction to the compendium, would have to be deepened at the university.

Although his orator Petrus Cunaeus noted that several friends of the deceased were astonished at this move, for "the moral philosophy transmitted from heaven to earth by Socrates is the most outstanding part of philosophy", he remarked Burgersdijk's humanistic ambition to that hidden in nature Truth, that a clear light may shine out of the darkness."

He therefore clarified the Aristotelian philosophy taught "by public authority" in the schools and removed "its obscurities', which were later intensified "scholastic 'Commentators such as Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus.'