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Where is a memorial to John Napier located?

  • St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh

  • Merchiston Tower

  • Scottish National Portrait Gallery

  • Westminster Abbey

Answer

John Napier, a Scottish mathematician and physicist who invented logarithms, has a memorial in St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh. The memorial is a bust of Napier in a niche in the wall of the south aisle of the church. It was sculpted by John Steell in 1874.
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