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Categories: Burials at Old Calton Cemetery, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Alumni of the University of St Andrews, Scottish mathematicians, 18th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland
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John Playfair  Playfair, John
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Rev Prof 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. Wikipedia
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Rev Prof 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. Wikipedia
Scottish scientist and mathematician Wikidata
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Fellow of the Royal Society
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Nordisk familjebok
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
EDUCATED AT
University of St Andrews
EMPLOYER
University of Edinburgh
FAMILY NAME
Playfair
FIELD OF WORK
mathematics
GIVEN NAME
John
INFLUENCED BY
Hutton
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Royal Society of Edinburgh
OCCUPATION
geologist
mathematician
physicist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Dundee
PLACE OF BURIAL
Old Calton Burial Ground
PLACE OF DEATH
Burntisland
POSITION HELD
professor
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
William Playfair
James Playfair
STUDENT
John Leslie
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
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John Playfair
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John Playfair
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John playfair, Playfair, John

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