1748 - 1819
John Playfair Scottish Scientist
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Scottish Scientist John Playfair was born on 10th March, 1748 in Benvie, Forfarshire, Scotland and passed away on 20th Jul 1819 Burntisland, Fife, Scotland aged 71. He is most remembered for His book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802).. His zodiac sign is Pisces.
John Playfair is a member of the following lists: People from Dundee, People from Angus, Scotland and Fellows of the Royal Society.
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Details
| First Name |
John
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| Last Name |
Playfair
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| Full Name at Birth |
John Playfair
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| Birthday |
10th March, 1748
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| Birthplace |
Benvie, Forfarshire, Scotland
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| Died |
20th July, 1819
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| Place of Death |
Burntisland, Fife, Scotland
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| Build |
Large
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| Zodiac Sign |
Pisces
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| Religion |
Protestant
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
Scottish
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| Occupation Text |
Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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| Claim to Fame |
His book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802).
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John Playfair FRSE, FRS (10 March 1748 – 20 July 1819) 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 Charles Lyell, first reached a wide audience. Playfair's textbook Elements of Geometry made a brief expression of Euclid's parallel postulate known now as Playfair's axiom.
