Edinburgh Napier University has campuses in the south and west of the city, including the former Craiglockhart Hydropathic and Merchiston Tower.

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.

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* English mathematician Henry Briggs goes to Edinburgh to show John Napier his efficient method of finding logarithms by the continued extraction of square roots ( unfortunately, Napier dies in April, 1617 ).

The Jack Kilby Computer Centre at the Merchiston Campus of Edinburgh Napier University in Edinburgh is also named in his honor.

Recognising the value of publicity gained from auto racing, which no other British marque did, in spring, Edge entered an 8 hp ( 6 kW ) Napier in the Thousand Miles ( 1, 600 km ) Trial of the Automobile Club on behalf of Edward Kennard ; driven by Edge, with Kennard along, on a circuit from Newbury to Edinburgh and back, she won her class, being one of only thirty-five finishers ( of sixty-four starters ) and one of just twelve to average the requisite 12 mph ( 19 km / h ) in England and 10 mph ( 16 km / h ) in Scotland.

* Edinburgh Napier University, in Edinburgh, Scotland, named after the mathematician

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In 1616 Briggs visited Napier at Edinburgh in order to discuss the suggested change to Napier's logarithms.

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* Edinburgh Napier University – formerly Napier Technical College, Napier College of Commerce and Technology then Napier Polytechnic

John Barrett was educated at the Forrester High School in Edinburgh, Telford College and Napier Polytechnic ( Now Napier University ).

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He later went to Napier College, Edinburgh where he studied Bacteriology and Virology.

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JCSP re is a highly reduced version of the JCSP packages that were developed at the Napier University Edinburgh by Professor Jon Kerridge, Alex Panayotopoulos and Patrick Lismore.

Research into JCSP for robotics environments and JCSP for mobile environments is an active area of research at Napier University Edinburgh.

Tom Harris is Ayrshire-born and was brought up in Beith, Scotland and was educated at the Garnock Academy in Kilbirnie and Napier College, Edinburgh where he was awarded an HND in Journalism in 1986.

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* Edinburgh University Library

* Edinburgh University wrote compilers for Algol60 ( later updated for Algol60M ) based on their Atlas Autocode compilers initially bootstrapped from the Atlas to the KDF-9.

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2003.

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002.

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* 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.

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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.

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Edinburgh University Press.

The new Scottish Parliament Building, adjacent to Holyrood House in Edinburgh, opened in 2004.

* 1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.

St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society opened its first shop in Edinburgh in 1859, and expanded to become one of the largest Co-ops before amalgamating with the Dalziel Society of Motherwell in 1981 and being renamed Scotmid.

In 1970 a new deep-water harbour was opened by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

The Show opened at Milton Keynes Theatre on 19 August 2011 before touring to other UK regional theatres including Leeds, Birmingham and Edinburgh.

It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, in a neoclassical building designed by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859.

The building opened for teaching in October 2008, with an official opening by Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on 5 November 2008.

The Duke of Edinburgh has also been a patron of the Cutty Sark ( which was opened by HM the Queen in 1957 ) since 1952.

The Edinburgh Academy is an independent school which was opened in 1824.

The bridge, opened in 1964, spans the Firth of Forth, connecting the capital city Edinburgh, at South Queensferry, to Fife, at North Queensferry.

Seven lives were lost during construction before the bridge was opened by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on 4 September 1964.

In 1833, the four-arched Dean Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford and 106 feet above the water level, was opened to carry the Queensferry Road over the Dean Gorge, almost at the sole expense of Mr John Learmonth Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

The tour opened in Malvern before travelling to Milton Keynes, Brighton, Bath, Norwich, Edinburgh and Newcastle ; its run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket was extended due to demand.

The building, opened in April 2010 by the Duke of Edinburgh, is also fitted with extensive computing facilities and includes separate underground computer rooms for undergraduates and postgraduates.

It was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip alongside Alderman Frank Price and Sir Herbert Manzoni on 29 May 1964 and had cost an estimated £ 8 million.

North of, the Caledonian Railway remained independent, and opened its main line from Carlisle to in September 1847, Edinburgh in February 1848 and Glasgow in November 1849.

His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh officially opened One Canada Square on the morning of 26 August 1991, and unveiled a commemorative plaque at the entrance to the building.

In 2006 Douglas Gordon Superhumanatural opened at the National Galleries of Scotland complex in Edinburgh, being Gordon's first major solo exhibition in Scotland since he presented 24 Hour Psycho in 1993.

Returning to Edinburgh in 1804, he opened a shop in South Bridge Street for the sale of old, rare and curious books.

Bishopbriggs railway station on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, opened in 1842 however, underlining its status as the emerging focus of the local area, although expansion remained slow throughout the latter half of the 19th century.

The tour opened at the Palace Theatre, Manchester and also played in the Birmingham Hippodrome, the Mayflower Theatre Southampton, the Edinburgh Playhouse, the Bristol Hippodrome and The Point Theatre in Dublin.

The small base opened in 1915 and it was used to house the 603 ( City of Edinburgh ) Squadron from 1925, which consisted of DH 9As, Westland Wapitis, Hawker Harts, and Hawker Hind light bombers.

The only international services from Edinburgh during the 1980s were to Amsterdam and Dublin, but in the following years links were opened to destinations in France and Germany.

The factory, opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, had the advantage of a direct rail link, which allowed cars to be transported by rail to places all over Britain.

This is a Grade II * three-tier dome conservatory palm house designed and built by MacKenzie and Moncur of Edinburgh which opened in 1896.