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  • {{r|John Playfair}}
    257 bytes (33 words) - 14:31, 17 February 2011
  • ...age of six, and in 1794 he came to [[Edinburgh]] to live with his uncle [[John Playfair]], the mathematician, geologist and a leading figure of the [[Scottish Enli ...ng|Royal Scottish Academy]]; the monuments to [[Dugald Stewart]], and to [[John Playfair]] and the National Monument (a replica of the [[Parthenon]]) on Calton Hil
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  • {{r|John Playfair}}
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  • | pagename = John Playfair
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  • {{r|John Playfair}}
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  • {{rpl|John Playfair}}
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  • {{rpl|John Playfair}}
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  • '''John Playfair''' (1748-1819), mathematician and physicist, was born on the 10th of March ...www.electricscotland.com/history/other/playfair_john.htm Significant Scots John Playfair] Electricscotland.com
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  • {{r|John Playfair}}
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  • ...an [[Adam Ferguson]], the inventor [[James Watt]], and the mathematician [[John Playfair]]. A [[deist]] in religion, he believed that the universe was established b ...ad been consolidated and elevated by heat. Five years after Hutton's death John Playfair published ''Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth''; this work
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  • ...gist [[James Hutton]], the philosopher [[David Hume]], the mathematician [[John Playfair]] (1748 - 1819) and other leading members of the Scottish Enlightenment, an
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  • ...90); Robert Methven Petrie (1906-1966); Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900);[[John Playfair]] (1748-1819); William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872); James Short (171
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