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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r728533443"><table class="commons-creator-table mw-collapsible mw-collapsed mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"><tbody><tr><th colspan="4"><span class="fn" id="creator"><bdi>Colin Maclaurin
</bdi></span> (1698–1746) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8755" title="wikidata:Q8755"><img alt="wikidata:Q8755" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/20px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="11" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/30px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/40px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590"></a> <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Author:Colin_Maclaurin" title="s:en:Author:Colin Maclaurin"><img alt="s:en:Author:Colin Maclaurin" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/15px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="16" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/23px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/30px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430"></a> <div class="mw-collapsible-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle-collapsed"><span class="mw-collapsible-arrowtoggle"> </span></div></th>
</tr><tr><td rowspan="6" style="width:120px" id="fileinfotpl_creator_image"><span class="wpImageAnnotatorControl wpImageAnnotatorOff"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colin_maclaurin.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Colin Maclaurin" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Colin_maclaurin.jpg/120px-Colin_maclaurin.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="149" class="photo" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Colin_maclaurin.jpg/180px-Colin_maclaurin.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Colin_maclaurin.jpg/240px-Colin_maclaurin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="951" data-file-height="1182"></a></span></td>
</tr><tr><th scope="row">Alternative names</th>
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Colin Maclaurin; Colin M'laurine</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Description</th>
<td colspan="2" class="fullwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_desc_value">British-Scottish mathematician, physicist and astronomer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Date of birth/death</th>
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February 1698 <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8755#P569" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></td><td class="halfwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_deathdate_value">
14 June 1746 <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8755#P570" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Location of birth/death</th>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Argyll_and_Bute" class="extiw" title="w:en:Argyll and Bute"><span title="unitary authority council area in Scotland">Argyll and Bute</span></a></td><td class="halfwidth" id="fileinfotpl_creator_deathloc_value">
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Edinburgh" class="extiw" title="w:en:Edinburgh"><span title="capital city of Scotland, UK">Edinburgh</span></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Authority_file" class="extiw" title="w:en:Authority file"><span title="collection of authority records, where each record picks preferred heading, alternative heading and other information, used for bibliographic information">Authority file</span></a></th>
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<ul><li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8755" title="wikidata:Q8755"><img alt="wikidata:Q8755" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/20px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="11" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/30px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/40px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590"></a>: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8755" class="extiw" title="d:Q8755">Q8755</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Virtual_International_Authority_File" class="extiw" title="w:en:Virtual International Authority File">VIAF</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/61658346/">61658346</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Standard_Name_Identifier" class="extiw" title="w:en:International Standard Name Identifier">ISNI</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://isni.oclc.org/xslt/DB=1.2/CMD?ACT=SRCH&amp;IKT=8006&amp;TRM=ISN%3A0000000083440896">0000 0000 8344 0896</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:LCCN_(identifier)" class="extiw" title="w:en:LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n82134386">n82134386</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:National_Library_of_Australia" class="extiw" title="w:en:National Library of Australia">NLA</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/search/display?dbid=auth&amp;id=35320150">35320150</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Mathematics_Genealogy_Project" class="extiw" title="w:en:Mathematics Genealogy Project">MGP</a>: <span class="uid"><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=234820">234820</a></span></span></li>
<li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82134386">WorldCat</a></span></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
<div style="display: none;">creator QS:P170,Q8755</div></div>
<bdi>David Steuart Erskine
</bdi>
circa 1795 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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