{"id":75958,"date":"2022-09-29T07:14:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/playfair-john\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T07:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T12:14:14","slug":"playfair-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/playfair-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Playfair, John"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Playfair, John<\/h2>\n<p>an eminent scientist, was born, in 1749, at Dundee; was educated at St. Andrew&#8217;s; resigned a living, and became mathematical professor at Edinburgh, where he died July 20,1819. Playfair was celebrated as a geologist, and a strenuous defender of the Huttonian system. Among his works are, Elements of Geometry:  Outlines of Philosophy:  Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory:  and A System of Geography.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playfair, John an eminent scientist, was born, in 1749, at Dundee; was educated at St. Andrew&#8217;s; resigned a living, and became mathematical professor at Edinburgh, where he died July 20,1819. Playfair was celebrated as a geologist, and a strenuous defender of the Huttonian system. Among his works are, Elements of Geometry: Outlines of Philosophy: Illustrations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/playfair-john\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playfair, John&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}