John Playfair

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John Playfair

Mathematics

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John Playfair

Philosophy

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• Philosophy

Why Is John Playfair Influential?

According to Wikipedia, 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. He is best known for his book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth , 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.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With John Playfair?

John Playfair is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of St Andrews
• University of Edinburgh