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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[J&oacute;zef Kosacki]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Physics]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Kosacki was an officer in the Polish Army in World War Two and is notably remembered as an engineer and inventor. He invented the first man-portable mine detector during his stay in St Andrews, with the Ardgowan Hotel as army headquarters and West Sands as a test site.
Prior to World War Two, he had been involved in the clandestine Special Signals Unit, a secret instate which worked on electronic appliances for the army. 
As Kosacki had to leave his family in German-held Poland, his name was classified in order to protect them. Therefore, most of his patents were submitted under pseudonyms, including "Józef Kos", "Kozacki", and "Kozack". Although he didn't receive payment nor official recognition for his work, King George VI  sen his a letter of gratitude. 
Kosacki's designs for the mine detector have been used with various armies for over 50 years, and doubled the speed at which heavily mind sands could be cleared (from 100 to 200 metres per hour). Although he didn't receive payment or official recognition for his work, King George VI sent him a letter of gratitude. The mine detector had a profound had a profound impact, saving innumerable lives and limbs.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Organisation]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[174]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John Napier]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[John Napier, the “Marvellous Merchiston” (as he was known in his day), was a Scottish landowner, mathematician, physicist, astronomer and discoverer of logarithms invented the so-called ‘Napier’s bones’, and made common the use of the decimal point. He was enrolled in St Salvator’s College, St Andrews at the age of 13, and it is suspected that he left Scotland to further his education in mainland Europe. He became interested in religion while in St Andrews, being particularly interested in the Book of Revelation and the Apocalypse. Napier was also often perceived as a magician, thought to have dabbled in necromancy and alchemy, and many tales were told of his superhuman powers. He is remembered through his namesakes, Edinburgh Napier University, the crater Neper on the moon, and the French name for the Natural Logarithm (Logarithme Népérien). David Hume described Napier as “the person to whom the title of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced”.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[history]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Organisation]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[173]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[George Martine, the younger]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Natural Philosophy]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[George Martine the younger became a physician and studied at the University of St Andrews. He there headed a student riot during the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, ringing the college bells the day that the ‘Old Pretender’ was proclaimed. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Leyden but settled in St Andrews. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society whilst serving as a physician during the War of Jenkins’ Ear and subsequent expeditions, wherein he contracted a ‘bilious fever’, from which he died.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[history]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Organisation]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[172]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[George Martine, the elder]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Natural Philosophy]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[George Martine the elder, (1635-1712) was an historian of St Andrews, following in the footsteps of his grandfather Dr George Martine, who was the principal of St Salvator’s College, St Andrews. Martine (the younger) is remembered through his work ‘Reliquiae divi Andreae’, which is the first history of the archbishopric, published after his death and since proving valuable to many St Andrean historians. Martine was commissary clerk of St Andrews from 1660 to 1690, being excluded from the post for refusing to pledge an oath of loyalty to King William III and Queen Mary II.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[history]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Organisation]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[171]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St Salvator's College]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[history,historyscieneex,womenofstandrews]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1534]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Lucia Cathers]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Site]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[170]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[James Gregory's meridian line]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Natural Philosophy]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This meridian runs several degrees west of the Greenwich meridian, making it around 12 minutes behind GMT. The brass meridian on South Street represents the line which Gregory initially carved into the floor of his laboratory (now King James' Library).]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[history]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1668]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Lucia Cathers]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Site]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[169]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[James Gregory's meridian line]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[history]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Lucia Cathers]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Site]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[168]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[James David Forbes' House]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Natural Philosophy]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[history]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1859]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Lucia Cathers]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Site]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[167]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Harbour Barometer]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Natural Philosophy]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A FitzRoy barometer with storm glass on the wall of 35 North Street, St Andrews.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[history]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1859]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Lucia Cathers]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Site]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[166]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin Plaque]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Natural Philosophy]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[history]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1759]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Lucia Cathers]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Site]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[165]]></dcterms:identifier>
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