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Playfair, John, F.R.S. (1748-1819), mathematician and geologist
Date: 1777-1811Reference: MS.7430/37-40Part of: Miscellany: English, chiefly 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006408: Portrait of Professor John Playfair (1748-1819)
Date: 13 October 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/53/90Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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John Playfair. Stipple engraving after H. Raeburn.
Raeburn, Henry, Sir, 1756-1823.Reference: 7883i- Pictures
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John Playfair. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1816, after H. Raeburn.
Raeburn, Henry, Sir, 1756-1823.Date: 1816Reference: 7882i- Pictures
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John Playfair. Line engraving by Stewart, 1819, after P. Morris (J.G. Lockhart).
Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854.Reference: 7884i- Pictures
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The monument to John Playfair on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Line engraving by W. H. Lizars, 1828, after H. Lizars.
Lizars, Henry.Date: 1828Reference: 7888i- Pictures
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John Playfair. Stipple engraving by Holl.
Reference: 7886i- Pictures
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John Playfair. Stipple engraving by J. Thomson, 1819.
Reference: 7885i- Books
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On the origin and investigation of porisms. By Mr. John Playfair, F. R. S. Edin. And Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh. From the third volume of the transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Playfair, John, 1748-1819.Date: 1792?]- Pictures
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The monument to John Playfair (right) and the New Observatory (left) on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Line engraving by A. Cruse after T. H. Shepherd.
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)Reference: 7887i- Books
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Elements of geometry; containing the first six books of Euclid, with two books on the geometry of solids. To which are added, elements of plane and spherical trigonometry. By John Playfair, F. R. S. Edin. Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh.
Euclid.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]- Books
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Outlines of natural philosophy : being heads of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh / by John Playfair.
Playfair, John, 1748-1819.Date: 1814- Pictures
Distinguished British men of science 1807-1808 assembled in the library of the Royal Institution, London. Mezzotint by W. Walker and G. Zobel after F. Skill and W. Walker, ca. 1860, after Sir J. Gilbert.
Gilbert, John, 1817-1897.Date: [1860?]Reference: 575630i- Pictures
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The distinguished men of science 1807-8: a key to the identities of the sitters. Photograph of engraving by W. Walker, 1862, after Sir J. Gilbert.
Gilbert, John, 1817-1897.Date: 1862Reference: 544960i