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John Playfair
John Playfair FRSE, FRS was a Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), which summarised the work of James Hutton. It was through this book that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism, later taken up by Charl…
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science · Scottish minister and scientist (1748–1819) · mathematician · geologist · physicist · naturalist · also John Playfair, Playfair
Born 10 March 1748 · Died 20 July 1819 · Q389666
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2023· 1 entry
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1857· 1 entry
His nephew, William Henry Playfair (1790–1857) was an eminent architect in Scotland.
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1819· 1 entry
Died 1819-07-20.
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1808· 2 entries
Launched an attack on John Smeaton and William Hyde Wollaston's work championing the theory
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Also published a review of Laplace's Traité de Mécanique Celeste
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1805· 1 entry
Playfair exchanged the Chair of Mathematics for that of natural philosophy in succession to John Robison, whom also he succeeded as general secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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1802· 1 entry
Playfair published his celebrated volume entitled Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth
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1772· 1 entry
Career landmark: parson (1772–1782).
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1769· 1 entry
Studied at St Mary's College, St Andrews (1765–1769).
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1765· 1 entry
Studied at University of St Andrews (1762–1765).
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1748· 1 entry
Born 1748-03-10.
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