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Playfair later recalled that " the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time ", and Hutton concluded a 1788 paper he presented at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, later rewritten as a book, with the phrase " we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.
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Playfair and later
Playfair later commented about the experience, " the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time ".
He was educated at Dollar Academy and the University of Edinburgh, where he studied under Lord Playfair, and later became Lord Playfair's assistant.
As mathematician John Playfair, one of Hutton's friends and colleagues in the Scottish Enlightenment, later remarked upon seeing the strata of the angular unconformity at Siccar Point with Hutton and James Hall in June 1788, " the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
Playfair starred in the Mermaid Society's well-received 1904 London production of The Way of the World by William Congreve and went on to produce a very effective modern run twenty years later at The Lyric with Edith Evans as Millamant ( 1924 ).
It has also been observed that the relationship between Playfair and Watson is very much like that between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, with one appearing delusional in following his inscrutable motives, and the other seeing clearly, but following the " visionary " out of concern, and later implicit friendship.
As Playfair later recalled, " The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time ".
Playfair ( brother of the famous English politician Dr. Lyon Playfair ), and travelled with him through Kulu and Lahaul, over the Kunzum Pass into the Spiti valley, where they later parted company.
As Playfair later recalled, " The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time ".
Playfair and by
He was, along with the earlier John Playfair, the major advocate of James Hutton's idea of uniformitarianism, that the earth was shaped entirely by slow-moving forces still in operation today, acting over a very long period of time.
Playfair describes Hutton as having noticed that “ a vast proportion of the present rocks are composed of materials afforded by the destruction of bodies, animal, vegetable and mineral, of more ancient formation ”.
Restatements of his geological ideas ( though not his thoughts on evolution ) by John Playfair in 1802 and then Charles Lyell in the 1830s popularised the concept of an infinitely repeating cycle, though Lyell tended to dismiss Hutton's views as giving too much credence to catastrophic changes.
Uniformitarianism was formulated by Scottish naturalists in the late 18th century, starting with the work of the geologist James Hutton, which was refined by John Playfair and popularised by Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology in 1830.
Playfair went on to say how Grace had " pulverised fast bowling on chancy pitches " and had then " astonished the world " by his deeds during the 1895 " Indian Summer ".
It was translated from Czech into English by Paul Selver and adapted for the English stage by Nigel Playfair.
He was the author of the world's first radio play, Danger, commissioned from him for the BBC by Nigel Playfair and broadcast on January 15, 1924.
This system was broadly endorsed by Commissions chaired by Playfair ( 1874 ), Ridley ( 1886 ), MacDonnell ( 1914 ), Tomlin ( 1931 ) and Priestley ( 1955 ).
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.
Gerald Playfair, an unarmed teenager and the son of the fort commander, was shot and killed by Garry Holohan as he ran to raise the alarm at Islandbridge Barracks.
* Old College, University of Edinburgh, ( 1788-onwards ) completed to an amended design by William Henry Playfair 1831
As with Gothic Revivalism, Scots Baronial architects frequently " improved " existing castles: Floors Castle was transformed in 1838 by William Playfair who added grand turrets and cupolas.
* Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd a huge red granite pyramid, designed by the adjacent Playfair
His Traité elementaire de géologie ( Paris, 1809, also in English, by Henry de la Fite, the same year ) was principally intended as a refutation of James Hutton and John Playfair.
* Polygraphic substitution, schemes where pairs or triplets of plaintext letters are treated as units for substitution, rather than single letters ( for example, the Playfair cipher invented by Charles Wheatstone in the mid-19th century ).
The Playfair system was invented by Charles Wheatstone, who first described it in 1854.
The scheme was invented in 1854 by Charles Wheatstone, but bears the name of Lord Playfair who promoted the use of the cipher.
Despite its invention by Wheatstone, it became known as the Playfair cipher after Lord Playfair, who heavily promoted its use.
Playfair and looking
In the Spring of 1788, the geologist Sir James Hall together with John Playfair and James Hutton set off from Dunglass Burn in a boat heading east along the coast looking for evidence to support Hutton's theory that rock formations were laid down in an unending cycle over immense periods of time.
Dunglass, just to the west of the town, was the home of the geologist Sir James Hall who, in the Spring of 1788, joined John Playfair and James Hutton in a boat trip from Dunglass Burn east along the coast looking for evidence to support Hutton's theory that rock formations were laid down in an unending cycle over immense periods of time.
Playfair and so
In this way, each ciphertext character depends on two plaintext characters, so the bifid is a digraphic cipher, like the Playfair cipher.
They "... were looked upon as bloodthirsty savages, who inhabited a tract of hills covered with almost impenetrable jungle, the climate of which was considered so deadly as to make it impossible for a white man to live there " ( Playfair 1909: 76-77 ).
" Some Canadian-born kids resent the fact that the Americans did so well in the Olympics and they're a bit jealous of them ," claimed Buffalo defenseman Jim Playfair.
Playfair and into
The Flames promoted Jim Playfair as Sutter's replacement, but after a first-round loss to the Detroit Red Wings in 2006 – 07, Sutter hired Mike Keenan as head coach, with Playfair stepping back into an associate coaching role.
* Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, who came to St Andrews in 1834 and was subsequently Provost ; in his time, St Andrews " was transformed into a thriving modern burgh ".
John Adam resurfaced the building in 1762 and James Playfair inserted a low window into the east facade in 1786.
Krusenstern is intruding into a large circular plain to the north designated Playfair G. Playfair itself lies to the northeast.
Justin Playfair ( Scott ) is a millionaire who retreats into fantasy after the death of his wife, imagining himself to be Sherlock Holmes, the legendary fictional detective.
Playfair is initially dismissive of Watson's attempts at psychoanalyzing him, but when he hears her name, he enthusiastically incorporates her into his life as Doctor Watson to his Holmes.
The relationship between Playfair and Watson takes this a step further by blossoming into a romance.
Playfair and time
As noted in " Have His Carcase ", he communicated at that time with British Intelligence using the Playfair cipher and became proficient in its use.
By this arrangement, Playfair was able to be frequently in Edinburgh and to cultivate the literary and scientific society for which it was at that time specially distinguished.
The original boarding accommodation was built at the same time as the original Playfair Building.
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