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John Playfair Born: 10 March 1748 in Benvie (near Dundee), Scotland Died: 20 July 1819 in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland Click the picture above to see two larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index John Playfair was the eldest son of the Reverend James Playfair, minister of Benvie, a small town near Dundee (then in Perthshire, now in Tayside), Scotland. He was educated by his father at home until the age of fourteen, when he was sent to the University of St Andrews to study for a general degree with the aim of entering the Church. Playfair was awarded a scholarship to the University in 1762, and there his aptitude and keenness to study gained him both the respect and friendship of his professors. His progress in the mathematical sciences was so rapid that the professor of natural philosophy (physics was still called natural philosophy in St Andrews when I [EFR] studied it in the 1960s), Professor Wilkie, when suffering from an illness, found him to be the person best qualified to deliver his lectures on natural philosophy. Playfair graduated from the University of St Andrews with an M.A. in 1765. In 1766, while still only eighteen, Playfair entered a contest for the Chair of Mathematics at Marischal College in Aberdeen. In this contest, which lasted eleven days, he distinguished himself and gained great recognition. The extent of mathematical knowledge required to be successful in such a contest was immense. Playfair was unsuccessful, however, finishing third out of the six candidates, behind the Reverend Dr

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Main Page See live article Alphabetical index John Playfair John Playfair ) was a Scottish scientist Playfair was professor of mathematics and later professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University . He is best known for his book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), which was a summary of the work of James Hutton . It was through this that Hutton's principal of uniformitarianism , later taken up by Charles Lyell , first reached a wide audience. In 1795 Playfair created an alternative formulation of Euclid 's parallel postulate called Playfair's axiom This article is from Wikipedia . All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

3. Overview Of John Playfair John Playfair 1748 1819. Geologist, physicist and mathematician.Born in Benvie, Playfair studied at St. Andrews. Having failed http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst211.html

Gazetteer for Scotland Help ... Add Comment John Playfair Geologist, physicist and mathematician. Born in Benvie, Playfair studied at St. Andrews. Having failed to gain professorships at Aberdeen and St. Andrews he became a parish minister. However he was offered the Chair of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in 1785 and later moved to the Chair of Natural Philosophy (1805), which he held until his death. He is perhaps best known for his work in geomorphology, realising that large rock could be transported as part of the process of glaciation, and was regarded by his students as an excellent teacher. Playfair popularised the the work of James Hutton (1726-97) with his publication Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of The Earth (1802). Playfair enthusiastically supported the extension of the Observatory on Edinburgh's Calton Hill and would undoubtedly have been Astronomer Royal for Scotland had the position existed when he was alive. Talbot Rice (1954) says: "The wide learning, the calm intellect and the clear thought, so apparent in all his writings, also marked his lectures. He was, according to one of his many illustrious pupils, 'a charming teacher, so simple, unaffected and sincere in manner, so chaste in style, so clear in demonstration'. By consolidating the learning of past generations and collating the discoveries and theories of his own time, he gave a comprehensive and unified presentation of the subjects he professed and thus laid the basis for future constructive researches in the fields of mathematics and natural philosophy."

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Gazetteer for Scotland Help ... Add Comment John Playfair References and Further Reading Rule, Graham (ed.) (1995) The City Observatory Edinburgh: A Guide to Edinburgh's Popular Observatory. The Astronomical Society of Edinburgh, http://www.roe.ac.uk/asewww/publications/booklet/ Related Records There are related records. Attractions, Families, Features, People, Settlements ) Names that are not linked do not currently contain any information. Attractions Calton Hill City Observatory Features Royal Society of Edinburgh St Andrews University University of Aberdeen University of Edinburgh People James Hutton James Playfair William Henry Playfair Sir Henry Raeburn ... William Wallace Settlements Benvie Burntisland Edinburgh St Andrews Supported by: The Robertson Trust, The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Geographical Society, The Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh.

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The early 1900's, who were the scientists associated with Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism and what evidence did they use to bolster their arguments? Note! The sentences in this essay are shuffled, making this essay unusable If you want to read the essay in it's original and proper state, click here. We use this page for our internal search engine, and it's not meant to be viewable. European History Home Essays [LOGIN] ... 1995-2004, Loadstone

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Welcome to ElectricScotland.com Clans Tartans History Travel ... Feedback Significant Scots John Playfair In 1769, having finished his courses at the university, Mr Playfair lived for some time in Edinburgh, in the enjoyment of the very select literary society of the period. "It would appear," says his biographer, [His nephew, by whom a Life of Mr Playfair was prefixed to an edition of his works, published in 1822.] From his thirst after knowledge being untainted by political or local prejudices, Playfair had early turned himself to the important discoveries of the continental algebraists, and was the first man of eminence to introduce them to British notice. He perceived the prejudices entertained on the subject in England, extensive discoveries of his own. The period between 1797 and 1802 was occupied by Mr Playfair in preparing his Illustrations, and in 1803 his biographical sketch of Hutton was published in the Society Transactions. In 1805 he quitted the mathematical chair, and succeeded professor John Robison in that of natural philosophy; during the same year his mother died at the age of eighty-five, and he retired along with a younger brother, his youngest sister, and two nephews, to Burntisland, that he might devote the summer to uninterrupted preparation for the duties of his new class. In the controversy with the clergymen of Edinburgh, regarding his successor to the chair of mathematics, he took an active part. A letter which he addressed to the provost of Edinburgh, in favour of the election of a

8. Playfair, John Search Biographies Bio search tips playfair, john. playfair, john 17481819 john playfair. Remembering a forgotten scientists.(The Man Who Found Time)(Book Review) http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE041308.html

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John Playfair Born: 10 March 1748 in Benvie (near Dundee), Scotland Died: 20 July 1819 in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland Click the picture above to see two larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index John Playfair was the eldest son of the Reverend James Playfair, minister of Benvie, a small town near Dundee (then in Perthshire, now in Tayside), Scotland. He was educated by his father at home until the age of fourteen, when he was sent to the University of St Andrews to study for a general degree with the aim of entering the Church. Playfair was awarded a scholarship to the University in 1762, and there his aptitude and keenness to study gained him both the respect and friendship of his professors. His progress in the mathematical sciences was so rapid that the professor of natural philosophy (physics was still called natural philosophy in St Andrews when I [EFR] studied it in the 1960s), Professor Wilkie, when suffering from an illness, found him to be the person best qualified to deliver his lectures on natural philosophy. Playfair graduated from the University of St Andrews with an M.A. in 1765. In 1766, while still only eighteen, Playfair entered a contest for the Chair of Mathematics at Marischal College in Aberdeen. In this contest, which lasted eleven days, he distinguished himself and gained great recognition. The extent of mathematical knowledge required to be successful in such a contest was immense. Playfair was unsuccessful, however, finishing third out of the six candidates, behind the Reverend Dr

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