Category: Alumni of the University of Edinburgh

* Edinburgh University Library

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2003.

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002.

Category: Rectors of the University of Edinburgh

* Kees Versteegh, The Arabic Language, Edinburgh University Press ( 1997 )

* Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, meta-level reasoning for guiding inductive proof, proof planning and recipient of 2007 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, Herbrand Award, and 2003 Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award.

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002.

This word was first used by Robert Blair ( d. 1828 ), professor of practical astronomy at Edinburgh University, to characterize a superior achromatism, and, subsequently, by many writers to denote freedom from spherical aberration.

( 1996 ) The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0-7486-0640-8

* Harding, D. W. ( 2000 ) The Hebridean Iron Age: Twenty Years ’ Research, University of Edinburgh Department of Archaeology, Occasional Paper No. 20, ISSN: 0144-3313

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Category: Alumni of the University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh University Press / Historic Scotland.

Edinburgh University Press.

Edinburgh University Press.

Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at the unusually early age of twelve ( possibly as young as ten ) at a time when fourteen was normal.

After the publication of Essays Moral and Political in 1744, Hume applied for the Chair of Pneumatics and Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Category: Alumni of the University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh University Press.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

It was after returning to Edinburgh in 1752, as he wrote in My Own Life, that " the Faculty of Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library ".

He wrote of his Paris life, " I really wish often for the plain roughness of The Poker Club of Edinburgh ... to correct and qualify so much lusciousness ".

Just after that patrol he left the Navy, wrote his MD thesis on venereal diseases, and was granted a license to practice in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Scott wrote a series of letters to the Edinburgh Weekly Journal under the pseudonym " Malachi Malagrowther " for retaining the right of Scottish banks to issue their own banknotes.

Claude wrote from Edinburgh on 18 May that he would survey the fortifications of the realm.

Barham was a contributor to the Edinburgh Review and the Literary Gazette ; he wrote articles for John Gorton's Biographical Dictionary ; and a novel, My Cousin Nicholas ( 1834 ).

This philosophy appears most clearly in the essays Macaulay wrote for the Edinburgh Review and other publications, which were collected in book form and a steady bestseller throughout the 19th century.

When summoned to lay down his arms and return to the Convention, he wrote back, pointing out that he was not, in fact, in arms, that there were threats against his life in Edinburgh, and that his wife was about to give birth, and requested that the summons be either revoked or delayed.

He also wrote a biography of the Scottish poet, Robert Fergusson ( Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1898 )

Prior to the start of the festival, Lee wrote an e-mail to the publicist of the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, copying in other comedians, in response to the announcement of a poll to find the public's favourite act from 30 years of the award, which was previously known as the Perrier Award.

When Rogers died, when Vanity Fair was published, when the Greville Memoirs was issued or a revolution occurred on the continent, Hayward, whose memory was as retentive as his power of accumulating documentary evidence was exhaustive, wrote an elaborate essay on the subject for the Quarterly or the Edinburgh.

During Mrs Grote's convalescence at Hampstead, he wrote his first published work, the " Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform " ( 1821 ), in reply to Sir James Mackintosh's article in the Edinburgh Review, advocating popular representation, vote by ballot and short parliaments.

The Seventh International Congress on Genetics was held in Edinburgh later that year ; Muller wrote a " Geneticists ' Manifesto " in response to the question: " How could the world's population be improved most effectively genetically?

In his later years he published an address read before the members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( 1868 ), one on Design in Nature, for the Christian Evidence Society, which reached a fifth edition, various charges and pastoral addresses, and he was one of the projectors of The Speaker's Commentary, for which he wrote the " Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels.

In 1977, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh wrote a letter addressed to Crown Prince Akihito regarding the preservation of the Iriomote cat.

The most famous chronicler of true crime trials in English history is the amateur criminologist William Roughead, a Scots lawyer who between 1889 and 1949 attended every murder trial of significance held in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, and wrote of them in essays published first in such journals as The Juridical Review and subsequently collected in best-selling books with such titles as Malice Domestic, The Evil That Men Do, What Is Your Verdict ?, In Queer Street, Rogues Walk Here, Knave's Looking Glass, Mainly Murder, Murder and More Murder, Nothing But Murder, and many more ….

Sir John Foulis from Edinburgh wrote in his account book ; " Played golf at Musselburgh, lost £ 3 5 " 0d.

After Kemble's death, The Edinburgh literary journal wrote, " Kemble was perhaps the best Sir John Falstaff which the British stage ever saw.

However, this is now denied by several authorities, among them being Durham's biographer, Stuart J Reid, who mentions that Buller described this statement as a groundless assertion in an article which he wrote for the Edinburgh Review.

The Fringe got its name the following year ( 1948 ) after Robert Kemp, a Scottish playwright and journalist, wrote during the second Edinburgh International Festival: ‘ Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before ...

Historian Patrick Henderson wrote in his History of Scotland ( 1596 ): " There came an Englishman to Edinburgh, with a chestain-coloured naig, which he called Marroco.

In 2003, she wrote and presented a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival titled All the Rage.

Michael Alfreds and Anthony Bowles wrote a 1968 musical adaptation, Mandrake, which has been performed in Edinburgh, London, New York, and elsewhere.