John Napier wrote, " I do not feel impressed with Mr. Wallace's story " regarding having over of film showing Bigfoot.

A species of Paranthropus, such as Paranthropus robustus, with its crested skull and bipedal gait, was suggested by primatologist John Napier and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg as a possible candidate for Bigfoot's identity, despite the fact that fossils of Paranthropus are found only in Africa.

John Napier asserts that the scientific community's attitude towards Bigfoot stems primarily from insufficient evidence.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

Scottish mathematician and physicist John Napier noted multiplication and division of numbers could be performed by addition and subtraction, respectively, of logarithms of those numbers.

John Napier of Merchiston ( 1550 – 4 April 1617 ) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer.

John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms.

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* 1785 – John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register ( later renamed The Times ).

* 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

John Stuart Mill publishes On Liberty, a defense of the famous harm principle.

** John H. Johnson publishes the first issue of the magazine Ebony.

* John Graunt, in one of the earliest uses of statistics, publishes statistical information about births and deaths in London.

* John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg Shorthand.

* John Ormsby publishes his new English translation of Don Quixote, acclaimed as the most scholarly made up to that time.

* John Wisden publishes the first edition of Wisden Cricketer's Almanack.

* 1820: John Clare 13 July 1793-20 May 1864 publishes Poems Descriptive of Rural life 1820

* John Bunyan publishes The Resurrection.

* Captain John Smith ( 1580 – 1631 ) publishes his book A description of New England in London.

* Moralist writer John Deacon publishes a quarto entitled Tobacco Tortured in the Filthy Fumes of Tobacco Refined.

* John Speed publishes his Atlas of England.

* September 14 – Carrington Bowles publishes A Journey Through Europe, a board game designed by John Jefferys, the earliest board game whose designer's name is known.

* Carrington Bowles publishes A Journey Through Europe, a board game designed by John Jeffreys, the earliest board game whose designer's name is known.

* John Locke publishes his influential book Some Thoughts Concerning Education.

* February 18 – John Bunyan publishes his novel, The Pilgrim's Progress.

* 1882 – 1884 – John Payne publishes an English version translated entirely from Calcutta II, adding some tales from Calcutta I and Breslau.

* 1776 – John Smeaton publishes a paper on experiments related to power, work, momentum, and kinetic energy, supporting the conservation of energy

* 1864 — John Herschel publishes the General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters

* 1890 — John Dreyer publishes the New General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters

* 1951 — The research group of Robert Robinson with John Cornforth ( Oxford University ) publishes their synthesis of cholesterol, while Robert Woodward ( Harvard University ) publishes his synthesis of cortisone.

* John Dickson Carr writing as " Carter Dickson " publishes his final Sir Henry Merrivale mystery novel.