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Brass meridian line and plaque installed in 2014 in the pavement of South Street outside the Library to commemorate Gregory's establishment of a meridian running through St Andrews.

James Gregory (1638–75) was the first of a great dynasty of Scottish mathematicians and natural philosophers. He became Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews in 1668. In 1672 he mathematically established a meridian line, a…

Location of Gatty Marine Laboratory in 2019.

Gatty Marine Laboratory(which is also the home of Scottish Oceans Institute) was named after the zoologist Charles Henry Gatty, who paid for the original timber building with its permanent stone replacement in 1892. Though the stone building was…

In 1759, during a visit to the city, the great American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was awarded an Honorary Degree in Law from the University of St Andrews and was given the Freedom of the Burgh. At this time Franklin was…