Dandy

I just couldn't resist introducing to those who don't already know him, Sir Thomas Urquhart, Knight of Cromartie and (rather obviously) Royalist.

But also a mathematician who wrote an accurate but unusable treatise on triangles, based on the work on Napier (he of the Bones).

And who died, legend has it, in exile on the Continent, of laughter.

PS Edinburgh Blipmeet, Saturday 12th August, 10am, Botanics East Gate

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Urquhart

How did i encounter him? On a visit to Innerpeffray Library, by Crieff.

http://www.innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk/#&panel1-1