Dugald Stewart Monument

Di sekitar Calton Hill banyak dibina tugu dan monumen. Salah satunya adalah Dugald Stewart Monument.

Dugald Stewart Monument

Dugald Stewart - b.1753, d.1828

Built 1831 - Architect: William Henry Playfair

This monument commemorates another key player of the Scottish Enlightenment Dugald Stewart. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stewart rose to fame as a writer and philosopher. Playfair modelled the monument on the ancient Greek Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, which also inspired Thomas Hamilton in his design for the Robert Burns Monument which sits on the other side of Calton Hill. Dugald Stewart was a professor of philosophy at edinburgh univ.

Extract from wiki - dugaldstewmonu.

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