MacLaurinC., “Memorial concerning the building of the Observatory in the College”, Town Council Minutes of the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh, lxii, 67–70 (10 June 1741).
2.
CraufurdT., History of the University of Edinburgh 1580–1646 (Edinburgh, 1808), 92, printed from Craufurd's c. 1646 manuscript. There is no mention of a bequest of a quadrant to the College in Napier's will, see NapierM., Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston (Edinburgh, 1834), 427–31.
3.
Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh 1604–1626 (Edinburgh, 1931), 225.
