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252 relations: Ada Lovelace, Adam Anderson (physicist), Alexander Adie, Alexander Balfour (novelist), Alexander Kennedy (physician), Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank, Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings, Amelia Robertson Hill, Andrew Mitchell Thomson, Antoine Claudet, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Autostereogram, Étienne-Louis Malus, Barchester Towers, Bibliography of Copenhagen, Blackwood (publishing house), Brewster (crater), Brewster (surname), Brewster (unit), Brewster Island, Brewster's angle, Brewsterite, British Science Association, Calum Colvin, Canongate Kirkyard, Carl Zeiss, Carpenter and Westley, Charles Babbage, Charles Cros, Charles Kinnear, Charles Wheatstone, Chicago-style politics, Chrysopa, Coddington magnifier, Color organ, Complementary colors, Crosscut.com, Daniel Dunglas Home, David Aitken (minister), David Brewster (disambiguation), David Douglas 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Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
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Adam Anderson (physicist)
Adam Anderson AM LLD (27 June 1783 – 5 December 1846) was a Scottish physicist and encyclopedist.
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Alexander Adie
Alexander James Adie FRSE MWS (1775, Edinburgh – 1859, Edinburgh) was a Scottish maker of medical instruments, optician and meteorologist.
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Alexander Balfour (novelist)
Alexander Balfour (1767–1829) was a Scottish novelist born in the parish of Monikie, Forfarshire.
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Alexander Kennedy (physician)
Dr Alexander Kennedy MD FRSE FSA (1764-1827) was a Scottish surgeon and antiquary.
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Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank
The Right Hon.
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Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings is a book of Tyneside popular and traditional songs consisting of approximately 400 song lyrics on over 600 pages, published in 1891.
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Amelia Robertson Hill
Amelia Robertson Hill (15 January 1821 – 5 July 1904), birth record Emmilia McDermaid Paton, was a prominent female Scottish artist and sculptor throughout the 19th century and one of the few with very public commissions, most noteworthy being the statue of David Livingstone in Princes Street Gardens and Robert Burns in Dumfries.
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Andrew Mitchell Thomson
Andrew Mitchell Thomson (1779–1831) was a minister of the Church of Scotland, known as an evangelical activist and political reformer.
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Antoine Claudet
Antoine François Jean Claudet (August 18, 1797December 27, 1867), was a French photographer and artist who produced daguerreotypes.
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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of over 1500 scientists.
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Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Assassin's Creed Syndicate is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Quebec and published by Ubisoft.
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 178814 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century.
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Autostereogram
An autostereogram is a single-image stereogram (SIS), designed to create the visual illusion of a three-dimensional (3D) scene from a two-dimensional image.
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Étienne-Louis Malus
Étienne-Louis Malus (23 July 1775 – 24 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician.
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Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers, published in 1857 by Anthony Trollope, is the second novel in his series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire".
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Bibliography of Copenhagen
A list of works about Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Blackwood (publishing house)
William Blackwood and Sons was a Scottish publishing house and printer founded by William Blackwood in 1804.
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Brewster (crater)
Brewster is a small lunar impact crater in the northern fringes of Sinus Amoris.
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Brewster (surname)
Brewster is a surname.
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Brewster (unit)
The brewster (B) is a non-SI unit used to measure the susceptibility of a material to photoelasticity, or the value of the Stress Optic Coefficient of the material.
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Brewster Island
Brewster Island is a small island lying northeast of Danco Island in Errera Channel, off the west coast of Graham Land.
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Brewster's angle
Brewster's angle (also known as the polarization angle) is an angle of incidence at which light with a particular polarization is perfectly transmitted through a transparent dielectric surface, with no reflection.
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Brewsterite
Brewsterite is the name of a series of tectosilicate minerals of the zeolite group.
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British Science Association
The British Science Association (BSA) is a charity and learned society founded in 1831 to aid in the promotion and development of science.
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Calum Colvin
Calum Colvin OBE RSA (born Glasgow, 1961) is a Scottish artist whose work combines photography, painting, and installation, and often deals with issues of Scottish identity and culture and with the history of art.
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Canongate Kirkyard
The Canongate Kirkyard (Churchyard) stands around Canongate Kirk on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Carl Zeiss
Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman who founded the workshop of Carl Zeiss in 1846 which is still in business today as Carl Zeiss AG.
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Carpenter and Westley
Carpenter and Westley were a British optical, mathematical and scientific instrument makers between 1808 and 1914.
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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.
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Charles Cros
Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros (October 1, 1842 – August 9, 1888) was a French poet and inventor.
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Charles Kinnear
Charles George Hood Kinnear FRIBA ARSA FRSE (30 May 1830 – 5 November 1894) was one half of Peddie & Kinnear, one of Scotland’s most renowned and prodigious architectural firms, famed for their development of the Scots Baronial style, typified by Cockburn Street in Edinburgh which evokes a highly medieval atmosphere.
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Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique).
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Chicago-style politics
Chicago-style politics is a phrase which has been used to refer to the city of Chicago, regarding its hard-hitting sometimes corrupt politics.
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Chrysopa
Chrysopa is a genus of green lacewings in the neuropteran family Chrysopidae.
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Coddington magnifier
A Coddington magnifier is a magnifying glass consisting of a single very thick lens with a central deep groove diaphragm at the equator, thus limiting the rays to those close to the axis, which again minimizes spherical aberration.
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Color organ
The term color organ refers to a tradition of mechanical devices built to represent sound and accompany music in a visual medium.
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Complementary colors
Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined, cancel each other out.
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Crosscut.com
Crosscut.com is a nonprofit, online newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Daniel Dunglas Home
Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume; 20 March 183321 June 1886) was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will.
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David Aitken (minister)
Rev David Aitken FRSE DD (1796–1875) was a 19th-century Scottish minister and church historian.
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David Brewster (disambiguation)
David Brewster may refer to.
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David Douglas (publisher)
David Douglas FRSE FSA (1823 – 1916) was a Scottish publisher in the 19th century.
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David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill (20 May 1802 – 17 May 1870) was a Scottish painter and arts activist.
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December 11
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Diamond (dog)
Diamond was, according to legend, Sir Isaac Newton's favourite dog, which, by upsetting a candle, set fire to manuscripts containing his notes on experiments conducted over the course of twenty years.
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Diffuse sky radiation
Diffuse sky radiation is solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or particulates in the atmosphere.
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Disruption of 1843
The Disruption of 1843 was a schism or division within the established Church of Scotland, in which 450 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away, over the issue of the Church's relationship with the State, to form the Free Church of Scotland.
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Dormouse
A dormouse is a rodent of the family Gliridae (this family is also variously called Myoxidae or Muscardinidae by different taxonomists).
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Edinburgh Calotype Club
The Edinburgh Calotype Club (1843 – c.1850s) of Scotland was the first photographic club in the world.
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Edinburgh Encyclopædia
The Edinburgh Encyclopædia was an encyclopaedia in 18 volumes, printed and published by William Blackwood and edited by David Brewster between 1808 and 1830.
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Edinburgh Photographic Society
The Edinburgh Photographic Society is a photographic society based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Edward Higginson
Edward Higginson (9 January 1807 – 12 February 1880) was an English Unitarian minister and author.
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Edward Ramsay
Rev Dr Edward Bannerman Ramsay FRSE LLD (17 January 1793– 27 December1872), usually referred to as Dean Ramsay, was a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and Dean of Edinburgh in that communion from 1841, has a place in literature through his Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, which had gone through 22 editions at his death.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Fluorescence
Fluorescence is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.
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Fraser's Magazine
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country was a general and literary journal published in London from 1830 to 1882, which initially took a strong Tory line in politics.
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Fresnel equations
The Fresnel equations (or Fresnel coefficients) describe the reflection and transmission of light (or electromagnetic radiation in general) when incident on an interface between different optical media.
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Fresnel lens
A Fresnel lens is a type of compact lens originally developed by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel for lighthouses.
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Fresnel rhomb
A Fresnel rhomb is an optical prism that introduces a 90° phase difference between two perpendicular components of polarization, by means of two total internal reflections.
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Gallery Fake
is a Japanese manga by Fujihiko Hosono, which was adopted into an anime television series.
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George Harvey (FRS)
George Harvey (died 29 October 1834) was an English mathematician, known for his scientific and engineering writings, on meteorology, ship building, and colour blindness.
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Henry Dewar (physician)
Henry Dewar of Lassodie MD FRSE (1771–1823),Erskine Beveridge, A Bibliography of Works relating to Dunfermline and the West of Fife (1901), p. 60 note 3;.
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Henry Hunter (divine)
Henry Hunter (25 August 1741 – 27 October 1802) was a Scottish minister who translated the works of noted scholars including Leonard Euler and Johann Kaspar Lavater.
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Henry Langdon Childe
Henry Langdon Childe (1781–1874) was an English showman, known as a developer of the magic lantern and dissolving views, a precursor of the dissolve in cinematic technique.
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Herapathite
Herapathite, or iodoquinine sulfate, is a chemical compound whose crystals are dichroic and thus can be used for polarizing light.
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Hill & Adamson
In 1843 painter David Octavius Hill joined engineer Robert Adamson to form Scotland's first photographic studio.
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History of lighthouses
The history of lighthouses refers to the development of the use of towers, buildings, or other types of structure, as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
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History of New York City (1784–1854)
The history of New York City (1784–1854) started with the creation of the city as the capital of the United States under the Congress of the Confederation from January 11, 1785, to Autumn 1788, and then under the United States Constitution from its ratification in 1789 until moving to Philadelphia in 1790.
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History of photography
The history of photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles, that of the camera obscura image projection and the fact that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light, as discovered by observation.
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History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions.
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History of universities in Scotland
The history of universities in Scotland includes the development of all universities and university colleges in Scotland, between their foundation between the fifteenth century and the present day.
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Hugh Lyon Playfair
Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair LL.D Kt (20 February 1787 – 19 January 1861) was a Scottish politician, army officer and photographic pioneer.
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Hugh Lyon Tennent
Hugh Lyon Tennent (11 May 1817 – 22 January 1874) was a Scottish advocate and pioneer photographer.
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Hugh Miller
Hugh Miller (10 October 1802 – 23/24 December 1856) was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian.
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Hugh William Williams
Hugh William Williams FRSE (1773–1829), known as "Grecian Williams", was a Scottish landscape-painter.
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Humphrey Lloyd (physicist)
Rev Prof Humphrey Lloyd DD FRS FRSE MRIA (1800–1881) was an Irish physicist.
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Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography
The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography was a biographical dictionary of the nineteenth century, published by William Mackenzie in Glasgow.
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Index of philosophy articles (D–H)
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Index of physics articles (D)
The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
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James Brewster
James Brewster may refer to.
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James David Forbes
James David Forbes (20 April 1809 – 31 December 1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology.
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James Farquharson
James Farquharson (1781–1843) was a Scottish minister, scientific writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
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James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer)
James Ferguson (25 April 1710 – 17 November 1776) was a Scottish astronomer.
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James Macadam Hare
Dr James Macadam Hare FRSE FRCS (1775–1831) was an eminent Scottish physician, closely linked to India and largely in the employ of the East India Company.
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James William Hunter
James William Hunter of Thurston FRSE (May 1783 - 3 December 1844) was a Scottish landowner, inventor and agricultural improver.
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James Young Simpson
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870) was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine.
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January 15
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Jedburgh
Jedburgh (Deadard; Jeddart or Jethart) is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the historic county of Roxburghshire.
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Jedburgh Grammar School
Jedburgh Grammar School is a state secondary school in Jedburgh, Scotland, with around 440 pupils, 40 teaching staff, and 15 non-teaching staff.
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John Adamson (physician)
John Adamson (12 December 1809 – 11 August 1870) was a Scottish physician, pioneer photographer, physicist, lecturer and museum curator.
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John Black (journalist)
John Black (7 November 1783 – 15 June 1855) was a British journalist and newspaper editor.
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John Campbell Smith
John Campbell Smith (1828–1914) was a Scottish writer, advocate and Sheriff-substitute of Forfarshire.
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John Cay
John Cay FRSE PRSSA (31 August 1790 – 13 December 1865) was a Scottish advocate, pioneer photographer and antiquarian.
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John Dillwyn Llewelyn
John Dillwyn Llewelyn (12 January 1810 – August 1882) was a botanist and pioneer photographer.
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John Duncan (weaver)
John Duncan (fl. 1800–1818) was a Scottish weaver who wrote an authoritative book about weaving in 1808.
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John Fleming (Gatton and Saltash MP)
Dr John Fleming FRS FRSE FLS (1747–17 May 1829) was a British surgeon of the Indian Medical Service, naturalist, and politician.
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John Fullerton, Lord Fullerton
John Fullerton, Lord Fullerton, (16 December 1775 – 3 December 1853) was a Scottish law lord.
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John Goodsir
Dr John Goodsir (20 March 1814 – 6 March 1867) was a Scottish anatomist.
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John Hall Gladstone
John Hall Gladstone FRS (7 March 1827 – 6 October 1902) was a British chemist.
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John Hennen
Dr John Hennen FRSE (24 April 1779 – 3 November 1828) was an Irish-born military surgeon and author of the acclaimed medical textbook The Principles of Military Surgery.
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John Lee (university principal)
Very Rev John Lee, D.D. FRSE LLD (22 November 1779 – 2 May 1859) was a Scottish academic and polymath, the Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1840 to 1859.
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John Robison (inventor)
Sir John Robison KH FRSE FRSSA (11 June 1778 – 7 March1843) was a Scottish inventor and writer on scientific subjects.
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John Shank More
John Shank More (sometimes written as John Schank More) LL.D FRSE RSA (1784–1861) was the Chair of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh which he held from 1843 to 1861.
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John Tulloch
John Tulloch (1 June 1823 – 13 February 1886) was a Scottish theologian.
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John Watson Gordon
Sir John Watson Gordon (1788 – 1 June 1864) was a Scottish portrait painter and president of the Royal Scottish Academy.
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John Watson Laidlay
John Watson Laidlay FRSE (1808–1885) was a Scottish merchant, numismatist and orientalist.
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Joseph Towne
Joseph Towne (25 November 1806 – 25 June 1879) was a British moulageur, sculptor, and stereoscopist.
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Jules Duboscq
Louis Jules Duboscq (March 5, 1817 – September 24, 1886) was a French instrument maker, inventor, and pioneering photographer.
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Jules Jamin
Jules Célestin Jamin (31 May 1818, Termes, Ardennes – 12 February 1886) was a French physicist.
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Kaleidophone
The kaleidophone is a "philosophical toy" that produces moving optical figures.
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Kaleidoscope
A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces tilted to each other in an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of the mirrors are seen as a regular symmetrical pattern when viewed from the other end, due to repeated reflection.
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Keith Medal
The Keith Medal was a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathematics or earth sciences.
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King's Buildings
The King's Buildings is a campus of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and contains most of the schools within the College of Science and Engineering, excepting only part of the School of Informatics and the School of Geosciences, which are located at the central George Square campus.
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Kingoodie artefact
The Kingoodie artefact (also known as Kingoodie hammer) is an object with the characteristics of a corroded iron nail found in a block of Devonian sandstone in 1844 in the Kingoodie Quarry in Kingoodie, Scotland.
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Koh-i-Noor
The Koh-i-Noor (کوهِ نور), also spelt Kohinoor and Koh-i-Nur, is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing, and part of the British Crown Jewels.
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Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond is a 2017 book on the Koh-i-Noor diamond written by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand.
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Leucite
Leucite is a rock-forming mineral composed of potassium and aluminium tectosilicate K. Crystals have the form of cubic icositetrahedra but, as first observed by Sir David Brewster in 1821, they are not optically isotropic, and are therefore pseudo-cubic.
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Limnephilus
Limnephilus is a genus of caddisflies in the family Limnephilidae.
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List of Assassin's Creed characters
This list of characters from the Assassin's Creed franchise contains only characters that are considered part of Assassin's Creed canon.
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List of British innovations and discoveries
The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including predecessor states in the history of the formation of the United Kingdom.
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List of craters on the Moon: A–B
The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature maintained by the International Astronomical Union includes the diameter of the crater and the person the crater is named for.
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List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge
This is a list of notable encyclopedias sorted by branch of knowledge.
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List of eponymous laws
This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, principles, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person.
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List of Fellows of the Royal Society A, B, C
About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.
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List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1815
Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1815.
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List of Geordie songwriters
This is a list of songwriters in the Geordie dialect of English, spoken in Tyneside.
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List of inventors
This is a list of notable inventors.
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List of mathematicians (B)
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List of people with craters of the Moon named after them
The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of the Moon. The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature maintained by the International Astronomical Union includes the person the crater is named for.
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List of philosophers born in the 18th century
Philosophers born in the 18th century (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically: See also.
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List of physicists
Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.
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List of Principals of the University of Edinburgh
Principals of the University of Edinburgh.
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List of recipients of the Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
This is a list of recipients of the Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste), a German and formerly Prussian honor given since 1842 for achievement in the humanities, sciences, or arts.
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List of scientific units named after people
This is a list of scientific units named after people.
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List of Scots
List of Scots is an incomplete list of notable people from Scotland.
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List of Scottish scientists
List of Scottish engineers and scientists is a list of notable Scottish scientists born in Scotland or associated with Scotland.
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List of University of Edinburgh people
List of University of Edinburgh people is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staffs, and university officials of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
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List of works in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia
Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia was a book series of 133 volumes, edited by Dionysius Lardner.
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Lithobius
Lithobius is a large genus of centipedes in the family Lithobiidae, commonly called stone centipedes, common centipedes or brown centipedes.
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Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men
The Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men comprised ten volumes of Dionysius Lardner's 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829–46).
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Local Heroes
Local Heroes is an award-winning science and history television programme in the United Kingdom, presented by Adam Hart-Davis.
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Maelzel's Chess Player
"Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a fraudulent automaton chess player called The Turk, which had become famous in Europe and the United States and toured widely.
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Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville (née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872), was a Scottish science writer and polymath.
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Mary Ward (scientist)
Mary Ward (née King; 27 April 1827 – 31 August 1869, age) was an Anglo-Irish naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist.
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Meanings of minor planet names: 10001–11000
004 | 10004 Igormakarov || || Igor' Mikhajlovich Makarov (born 1927) is known for his research on nonlinear and adaptive systems, artificial intelligence and the choice and acceptance of decisions.
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Meanings of minor planet names: 5001–6000
|- | 5001 EMP || || The annual publication Ephemerides Of Minor Planets (Ehfemeridy Malykh Planet).
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Melrose Abbey
St Mary's Abbey, Melrose is a partly ruined monastery of the Cistercian order in Melrose, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders.
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Mirror
A mirror is an object that reflects light in such a way that, for incident light in some range of wavelengths, the reflected light preserves many or most of the detailed physical characteristics of the original light, called specular reflection.
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Mount Brewster (Antarctica)
Mount Brewster is a small peak (2,025 m) that rises above the general level of the central part of Daniell Peninsula and marks its greatest elevation, in Victoria Land.
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Multiple-prism dispersion theory
The first description of multiple-prism arrays, and multiple-prism dispersion, was given by Newton in his book Opticks.
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Murray's Family Library
Murray's Family Library was a series of non-fiction works published from 1829 to 1834, by John Murray, in 51 volumes.
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Nebular hypothesis
The nebular hypothesis is the most widely accepted model in the field of cosmogony to explain the formation and evolution of the Solar System (as well as other planetary systems).
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Nephrops
Nephrops is a genus of lobsters comprising a single extant species, Nephrops norvegicus (the Norway lobster or Dublin Bay prawn), and several fossil species.
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Optical mineralogy
Optical mineralogy is the study of minerals and rocks by measuring their optical properties.
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Optical toys
Optical toys form a group of devices with some entertainment value that usually have a scientific, optical nature.
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Patrick Brewster
Patrick Brewster (20 December 1788 - 26 March 1859), was a Scottish minister largely based in Paisley.
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Photoelasticity
Photoelasticity describes changes in the optical properties of a material under mechanical deformation.
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Pinhole camera
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture, a pinhole – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side.
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Pollock Halls of Residence
Pollock Halls of Residence are the main halls of residence for the University of Edinburgh, located at the foot of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Popular science
Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience.
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Principal of the University of St Andrews
The Principal of the University of St Andrews is the chief executive and chief academic of the University.
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Pyroelectricity
Pyroelectricity (from the Greek pyr, fire, and electricity) is the property of certain crystals which are naturally electrically polarized and as a result contain large electric fields.
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Rees's Cyclopædia
Rees's Cyclopædia, in full The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature was an important 19th-century British encyclopædia edited by Rev.
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Refractive index
In optics, the refractive index or index of refraction of a material is a dimensionless number that describes how light propagates through that medium.
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Richard Bradley (botanist)
Richard Bradley FRS (1688 – 5 November 1732) was an English naturalist specialising in botany.
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Richard Phillips (chemist)
Richard Phillips FRS FRSE FCS FGS (21 November 1778 – 11 May 1851), was a distinguished British chemist and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1822.
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Robert Adamson (photographer)
Robert Adamson (26 April 1821 – 14 January 1848) was a Scottish chemist and pioneer photographer at Hill & Adamson.
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Robert Bald
Robert Bald FRSE FSA MWS (1776–1861) was a Scottish surveyor, civil and mining engineer, and antiquarian.
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Robert Daun
Dr Robert Daun FRSE FRCS (1785 – 1871) was a prominent figure in 19th century Scotland with a colourful life, ranging from being with the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo to being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Robert Jameson
Robert Jameson Professor Robert Jameson FRS FRSE (11 July 1774 – 19 April 1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist.
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Robert Tennent
Robert Tennent FRSE (1815-15 December 1890) was an early Scottish photographer and major landowner in Australia.
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Romanticism in Scotland
Romanticism in Scotland was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that developed between the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries.
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Royal Scottish Society of Arts
The Royal Scottish Society of Arts is a learned society in Scotland, dedicated to the study of science and technology.
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Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters.
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Sasquatch Books
Sasquatch Books is an American book publishing company based in Seattle, Washington.
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Science communication
Science communication is the public communication of science-related topics to non-experts.
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Scientific phenomena named after people
This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena).
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Scottish art
Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times.
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Scottish art in the nineteenth century
Scottish art in the nineteenth century is the body of visual art made in Scotland, by Scots, or about scottish subjects.
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Scottish education in the nineteenth century
Scottish education in the nineteenth century concerns all forms of education, including schools, universities and informal instruction, in Scotland in the nineteenth century.
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Scottish inventions and discoveries
Scottish inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques either partially or entirely invented, innovated or discovered by a person born in or descended from Scotland.
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Scottish photography
Scottish photography is the creation of durable images by recording light, or other electromagnetic radiation, in Scotland, or by Scottish people.
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Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet
Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet, FRSE (23 September 1826 – 30 November 1884) was a Scottish baronet, landowner and historian who served Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1868 to 1884.
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Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegarth FRS FRSE FLS FSA (23 February 1800 – 21 November 1874) was a Scottish naturalist.
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Solar observation
Solar observation is the scientific endeavor of studying the Sun and its behavior and relation to the Earth and the remainder of the Solar System.
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Stephen Atkinson (metallurgist)
Stephen Atkinson (fl. 1586–1619), English metallurgist and author of The Discoverie and Historie of Gold Mynes in Scotland.
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Stereopsis
Stereopsis (from the Greek στερεο- stereo- meaning "solid", and ὄψις opsis, "appearance, sight") is a term that is most often used to refer to the perception of depth and 3-dimensional structure obtained on the basis of visual information deriving from two eyes by individuals with normally developed binocular vision.
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Stereoscope
A stereoscope is a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image.
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Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision.
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The Kaleidoscope
The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror was an English weekly published between 1818 and 1831 by the Liverpool publisher Egerton Smith (1774-1841), who had established the Liverpool Mercury in 1811.
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Theistic evolution
Theistic evolution, theistic evolutionism, evolutionary creationism or God-guided evolution are views that regard religious teachings about God as compatible with modern scientific understanding about biological evolution.
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Thomas Baker Morrell
Rt Rev Thomas Baker Morrell DD FRSE (1815–1877) was a 19th-century British episcopalian minister who served as Bishop of Edinburgh.
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Thomas Brumby Johnston
Thomas Brumby Johnston FRSE FRGS FSA (1814-1897) was a 19th-century Scottish geographer, cartographer, antiquary and pioneer photographer.
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Thomas Chalmers
Thomas Chalmers (17 March 1780 – 31 May 1847), was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland.
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Thomas Jackson (physicist)
Prof Thomas Jackson FRSE LLD (1773-1837) was a Scottish physicist operating in the early 19th century.
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Thomas Keith (surgeon)
Thomas Keith FRCSE (27 May 1827 – 9 October 1895) was a Victorian surgeon and amateur photographer from Scotland.
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Thomas Murray (writer)
Thomas Murray (1792–15 April 1872) was a Scottish printer and writer.
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Thomas Richard Williams
Thomas Richard Williams (5 May 1824 – 5 April 1871) was a British professional photographer and one of the pioneers of stereoscopy.
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Thomas Rodger
Thomas Rodger (8 April 1832 – 6 January 1883) was an early Scottish photographer.
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Thomas Wedgwood (photographer)
Thomas Wedgwood (14 May 1771 – 10 July 1805), son of Josiah Wedgwood, the potter, is most widely known as an early experimenter in the field of photography.
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Thomas Young (scientist)
Thomas Young FRS (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was a British polymath and physician.
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Timeline of Buenos Aires
This is a timeline of the history of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Timeline of Dresden
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
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Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics
Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics lists, within the history of electromagnetism, the associated theories, technology, and events.
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Timeline of Lahore
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lahore, Pakistan.
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Timeline of Milan
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Milan, Italy.
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Timeline of Montevideo
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Timeline of Nantucket
The following is a timeline of the history of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA.
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Timeline of Nuremberg
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nuremberg, Germany.
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Timeline of Riga
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Riga, Latvia.
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Timeline of Santiago de Chile
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Santiago, Santiago Province, Chile.
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Timeline of Strasbourg
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Strasbourg, Alsace, France.
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Timeline of Sydney
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals
Georgius Agricola is considered the 'father of mineralogy'.
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Timeline of Trieste
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy.
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Timeline of Zürich
The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Zürich, Switzerland.
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Toy
A toy is an item that is used in play, especially one designed for such use.
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University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.
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University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews (informally known as St Andrews University or simply St Andrews; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a British public research university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
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Uranyl
The uranyl ion is an oxycation of uranium in the oxidation state +6, with the chemical formula.
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.
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Wallace Monument
The National Wallace Monument (generally known as the Wallace Monument) is a tower standing on the shoulder of the Abbey Craig, a hilltop overlooking Stirling in Scotland.
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Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (or Wilhelm von Haidinger, or most often Wilhelm Haidinger) (5 February 1795 – 19 March 1871) was an Austrian mineralogist.
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William Brodie (sculptor)
William Brodie (22 January 1815 – 30 October 1881) was a Scottish sculptor, working in Edinburgh in the 19th century.
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William Fergusson (physician)
Dr William Fergusson FRSE (1773–1846) was a Scottish inspector-general of military hospitals, and medical writer.
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William Home Lizars
William Home Lizars (1788 – 30 March 1859) was a Scottish painter and engraver.
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William Napier, 9th Lord Napier
William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, Baron Napier FRSE (13 October 1786 – 11 October 1834) was a British Royal Navy officer and trade envoy in China.
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William Nicol (geologist)
Dr William Nicol FRSE FCS (18 April 1770 – 2 September 1851) was a Scottish geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828.
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William Wallace (mathematician)
Prof William Wallace LLD (23 September 1768 – 28 April 1843) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer who invented the eidograph.
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William Whewell
William Whewell (24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science.
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1781
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1781 in Great Britain
Events from the year 1781 in Great Britain.
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1781 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1781.
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1781 in science
The year 1781 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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1781 in Scotland
Events from the year 1781 in Scotland.
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1808 in Scotland
Events from the year 1808 in Scotland.
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1815 in science
The year 1815 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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1816 in science
The year 1816 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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1816 in Scotland
Events from the year 1816 in Scotland.
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1817 in science
The year 1817 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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1817 in Scotland
Events from the year 1817 in Scotland.
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1821 in Scotland
Events from the year 1821 in Scotland.
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1838 in science
The year 1838 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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1838 in Scotland
Events from the year 1838 in Scotland.
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1849 in science
The year 1849 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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1855 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1855.
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1860 Oxford evolution debate
The 1860 Oxford evolution debate took place at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England, on 30 June 1860, seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
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1868
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1868 in Scotland
Events from the year 1868 in Scotland.
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1868 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1868 in the United Kingdom.
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References
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