Category: Tomb
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William Smellie’s Legacy – Beyond his Bookcase
Some months ago I discovered there was a collection of books from the Eighteenth century tucked away in the library at Lanark. I made arrangements to view it and spent two hours handling and leafing through books that had been collected more than 270 years ago. This is the library…
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Searching for The Professors’ Monument
Day 3 (Monday 21 July) It’s difficult to find the Professors’ Monument among all the tombs, mausoleums, stelae, headstones and statues of Glasgow Necropolis. The monument contains the remains of Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid (1710-1796) – founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense. He was originally buried at the…
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The Mighty Hume! Great Bloke. Decent Tomb.
No-one knows who David Hume is these days. He’s only the greatest philosopher ever to have written in English, that’s who. His mausoleum can be found in the Old Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh, and I went there recently to see his burial place; a man who I think was absolutely AMAZING.…
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