David Brewster
1781 - 1868
- Born
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11 December 1781
Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland
- Died
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10 February 1868
Allerby, Melrose
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 04/05/1815
- Fields of Interest
- Optics
- Relationships
- Son of James Brewster, Rector of the Grammar School, Jedburgh
- Catalogue
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Unpublished letter, 'On a new property of light possessed by the second surfaces of transparent bodies' from David Brewster to Sir Joseph Banks
Creator: David Brewster Reference number: AP/8A/4 -
Unpublished paper, 'Abstract of experiments on light' by David Brewster
Creator: David Brewster Reference number: AP/9/5 -
Paper, 'On some properties of light' in a letter from David Brewster to Sir H [Humphry] Davy
Creator: David Brewster Reference number: PT/7/13 -
Paper, 'On the affections of light transmitted through crystallised bodies' by David Brewster in a letter to Sir Humphry Davy
Creator: David Brewster Reference number: PT/8/11 -
Paper, draft of 'On the affections of light transmitted thro' various crystallised bodies' in a letter from David Brewster to Sir H [Humphry] Davy
Creator: David Brewster Reference number: PT/8/12 -
Paper, 'On the polarisation of light by oblique transmission through all bodies whether crystallised or uncrystallised' by David Brewster in a letter to Taylor Combe
Creator: David Brewster Reference number: PT/8/13
Recipient of
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Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to David Brewster
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/4/249 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to David Brewster
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/4/252 -
Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to David Brewster
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/4/253 -
Draft notes towards a letter, from Sir John Herschel to David Brewster
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/4/254 -
Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to David Brewster
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/4/258 -
Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to David Brewster, dated at Windsor
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/4/264
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
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