Edinburgh Napier University
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Edinburgh Napier University is a public university in Edinburgh, Scotland. Napier Technical College, the predecessor of the university, was founded in 1964, taking its name from 16th-century Scottish
Exterior of Edinburgh Napier University's Sighthill Campus
Exterior of Edinburgh Napier University's Craiglockhart Campus
Merchiston Castle in the centre of Merchiston Campus
Old College Quad
John Napier
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John Napier of Merchiston, nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston. Napier is best known as the
Edinburgh Napier University
…Technical College, the predecessor of the university, was founded in 1964, taking its name from 16th-century Scottish mathematician and philosopher John Napier. The technical college was inaugurated as a university in 1992 by Lord Douglas-Hamilton, becoming Napier University. In 2009, the university was renamed…
1616 portrait of Napier
Merchiston Castle from an 1834 woodcut
Memorial to John Napier in St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh
Cover of Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio (1614)