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People of the Scottish Enlightenment (4 C, 110 P) Pages in category "18th-century Scottish people" The following 170 pages are in this category, out of 170 total.
Walter Scott whose Waverley Novels helped define Scottish identity in the 19th century. While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, [167] disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such ...
Alexander Arbuthnot (died 1585), printer, work including George Buchanan's first History of Scotland; Sir George Gough Arbuthnot (1848–1929), businessman and civic leader in British India; John Bartholomew, Sr. (1805–1861), cartographer and engraver, founder of John Bartholomew and Son Ltd; John Bartholomew Jr. (1831–1893), cartographer
Here “he lived a life of elegant ease, like a classical Roman in his villa, looking after his estate, observing life, reading and writing notes on 18th-century Scotland which eventually filled 10 folio volumes”. [5] In 1785 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Walker, James Hutton and Joseph ...
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The Scottish Enlightenment (Scots: Scots Enlichtenment, Scottish Gaelic: Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By the eighteenth century, Scotland had a network of parish schools in the Scottish Lowlands and
Years of the 18th century in Scotland (100 C, 100 P) Pages in category "18th century in Scotland" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.
James Currie FRS (31 May 1756 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland – 31 August 1805 in Sidmouth) was a Scottish physician, best known for his anthology and biography of Robert Burns and his medical reports on the use of water in the treatment of fever. A watercolour portrait by Horace Hone (1756–1825) is in the National Galleries of Scotland. [1]