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Brewster, David Sir

1781 - 1868

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  • Cover of: The kaleidoscope, its history, theory and construction with its application to the fine and useful arts.

    First published in 1858 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1820 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1832 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1830 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: A treatise on magnetism: forming the article under that head in the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

    First published in 1837 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1824 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Memoirs of the life writings, and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton

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  • Cover of: On a new cleavage in calcareous spar: with a notice of a method of detecting secondary cleavages in minerals

    First published in 1828 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Description of a new reflecting telescope

    First published in 1822 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1971 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Results of the thermometrical observations made at Leith Fort every hour of the day and night during the whole of the years 1824 and 1825

    First published in 1826 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Account of a remarkable peculiarity in the structure of glaberite: which has one axis of double refraction for violet, and two axes for red light

    First published in 1829 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1843 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1831 1 edition in 1 language
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Subjects
Polarization (Light), Optical mineralogy, Crystal optics, Determinative Mineralogy, Mineralogy, Scientific recreations, Silicate minerals, Optical instruments, Optics, Silicates, Atmospheric temperature, Bamboo, Crystallography, Eye, Kaleidoscopes, Microscopes, Microscopy, Phosphorescence, Physical optics, Plurality of worlds, Quartz, Reflections, Biography, Climatology, Compass
Places
Scotland, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Massachusetts, Netherlands, North Sea
People
Isaac Newton Sir (1642-1727), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), Humphrey Davy Sir (1778-1829), Isaac Newton Sir (1642-1727,), Samuel Hibbert (1782-1848)

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  • OLID: OL1172281A

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Alternative names

  • Brewster, David Sir.
  • Sir David Brewster
  • David, Sir Brewster
  • [Brewster, David Sir]

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
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June 30, 2014 Edited by KirstinM added short bio
June 30, 2014 Edited by KirstinM merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import