James Maitland Anderson first came to the University of St Andrews in 1874 as an Assistant Librarian. In 1881, he became University Librarian, a role he held until 1924. During these years he also served as Secretary of the University (1878-1899),…
James Gregory was a Scottish astronomer, mathematician and Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews. Gregory's contribution to his field is astonishing. For Astronomy, he developed a telescope that uses the properties of…
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…
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'…
