On 31st August 1946, the first Edinburgh Film Festival opened. The festival was officially opened on this date by the Lord Provost at the Playhouse Cinema. The festival was originally known as the International Festival of Documentary, but has now grown to become recognised as one of the great worldwide film festivals. Also on this day in 1721, the Scottish mathematician, John Keill, died. Keill was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1700 and Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford in 1712. He acted as a propagator of Newtons philosophy and argued against Whiston and others. He claimed that Leibniz had plagiarised Newtons invention of the calculus and he served as Newtons avowed champion. He also wrote on forces between particles and on theories of the origin of the universe.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 14:06:35 +0000
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