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	David Brewster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir David Brewster, (December 11, 1781 – February 10, 1868) was a Scottish scientist and writer.
		To Brewster is due the merit of suggesting the use of lenses for the purpose of uniting the dissimilar pictures; and accordingly the lenticular stereo-scope may fairly be said to be his invention.
		Brewster's relations as editor brought him into frequent communication with the most eminent scientific men, and he was naturally among the first to recognize the benefit that would accrue from regular intercourse among workers in the field of science.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Brewster (1053 words)

	David Brewster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But it is indisputable that Brewster wasearlier in the field than Fresnel; that he described the dioptric apparatus in 1812 ; thathe pressed its adoption on those in authority at least as early as 1820, two years beforeFresnel suggested it; and that it was finally introduced into British lighthouses mainly by his persistent efforts.
		Brewster's relations as editor brought him into frequent communication with the most eminent scientific men, and he wasnaturally among the first to recognize the benefit that would accrue from regular intercourse among workers in the field ofscience.
		In 1849 heacted as president of the British Association and was elected one of the eight foreign associates of the Institute of France in succession to J. Berzelius; and ten yearslater he accepted the office of principal of the university of Edinburgh, the duties of which he discharged until within a fewmonths of his death.
	www.therfcc.org /david-brewster-84840.html (1000 words)

	David Brewster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To Brewster is due the merit suggesting the use of lenses for the purpose of uniting the pictures; and accordingly the lenticular stereo-scope may be said to be his invention.
		But it is that Brewster was earlier in the field Fresnel; that he described the dioptric apparatus 1812 ; that he pressed its adoption on in authority at least as early as 1820 two years before Fresnel suggested it; that it was finally introduced into British mainly by his persistent efforts.
		Brewster's relations as editor brought him into communication with the most eminent scientific men he was naturally among the first to the benefit that would accrue from regular among workers in the field of science.
	www.freeglossary.com /David_Brewster (996 words)

	David Brewster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir David Brewster, (December 11, 1781 — February 10, 1868) was a Scottish scientist.
		In 1819 Brewster undertook further editorial work by establishing, in conjunction with Robert Jameson (1774 — 1854), the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, which took the place of the Edinburgh magazine.
		Brewster Area Map Shows where Brewster is in relation to Worthington and surrounding communities.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-David_Brewster.html (1257 words)

	BREWSTER, SIR DAVID - LoveToKnow Article on BREWSTER, SIR DAVID
		Though he duly finished his theological course and was licensed to preach, Brewsters preference for other pursuits prevented him from engaging in the active duties.of his pro-fession.
		To Brewster is due themerit of suggesting the use of lenses for the purpose of unitingthe dissimilar pictures; and accordingly the lenticular stereo-scope may fairly be said to be his invention.
		In1819 Brewster undertook further editorial work by establishing, In conjunction with Robert Jameson (17741854), the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, which took the place of the Edinburgh idagazine.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BREWSTER_SIR_DAVID.htm (2142 words)

	David Brewster
		Brewster was educated for the ministry at the University of Edinburgh, but his interest in science deflected him from pursuing this profession.
		Brewster was instrumental in persuading the British to adopt the lightweight, flat Fresnel lens for use in lighthouses.
		Of Brewster's numerous published works, his Treatise on Optics (1831) and Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) are probably the most important.
	fys.kuleuven.be /pradem/fysici/Brewster.html (240 words)

	BREWSTER, Sir David : A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir David Brewster was an outstanding scholar who had the distinction of going to Edinburgh University at the age of eleven.
		He was in touch with Fox Talbot and it was he who suggested the use of the photographic process to David Hill, as an aid to his painting.
		His book (The Stereoscope, its history, theory and construction) is still a good introduction to stereoscopic photography, though the author rather spoilt it by his unpleasantries concerning Wheatstone, who had actually invented stereoscopy.
	www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/brewster.htm (354 words)

	Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
		David Brewster was born in Jedburgh, an obscure country town in the midst of the Scottish lowlands, on December 11, 1781.
		Brewster was admitted to the Royal Society of London, and was later awarded the Rumford gold and silver medal for his theory on the polarization of light.
		Brewster's Angle is useful in all kinds of practical applications, from adjusting radio signals to building microscopes capable of examining objects on a molecular scale.
	www.brewstersociety.com /brewster_bio.html (1613 words)

	PSS Members - Sir David Brewster
		It was primarily through this society that Brewster and a small group of pioneering photographers, including the Adamson brothers and Thomas Rodger experimented with the calotype process in the early 1840s in St Andrews.
		Sir David Brewster was born in Jedburgh in 1787.
		Sir David Brewster was elected first President of the Photographic Society of Scotland, from its foundation in 1856, and remained its President until the Society was wound up in 1873.
	www.edinphoto.org.uk /3/3_pss_members_brewster.htm (646 words)

	Sir David Brewster: A Short History
		Sir David Brewster was born December 11, 1781 in Scotland.
		Brewster is most remembered for the invention of the Kaleidoscope but he is also credited for optical improvement of the Microscope as well as his invention of the lenticular stereoscope that bears his name.
		The Brewster viewer is one of the earliest means of viewing the stereograph.
	home.centurytel.net /s3dcor/brewhis.htm (379 words)

	In The Northwest: Seattle's idea man, Brewster, may not be done yet
		Brewster was founding editor of The Weekly, which published its inaugural issue on March 31, 1976, celebrating the dedication of the Kingdome and the return of Major League Baseball to Seattle.
		Brewster was a pundit and goad in his early days here, pushing to throw open the windows of a provincial city and let in some air.
		David Brewster is a look-alike for Dick Cavett, the provocative TV host of the early 1970s but seldom seen nowadays.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /connelly/224699_joel18.html (985 words)

	Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		David Brewster is chiefly remembered today for his invention of the kaleidoscope.
		Brewster's main experiments were on the theory of light and its uses and Some Properties of Light, his first paper, was published in 1813.
		Brewster was certainly one of the most energetic scholars of his period, interested in a great variety of areas, and he has left behind an intriguing set of scientific instruments.
	www-ah.st-and.ac.uk /mgstud/reflect/david.html (511 words)

	Brewster's angle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brewster's angle is an optical phenomenon first discovered by Sir David Brewster (1781 - 1868),Scottish physicist.
		Aglass plate placed at Brewster's angle in a light beam can thus be used as a polariser.
		For a randomly polarized ray incident at Brewster's angle, the reflected and refractedrays are at 90° with respect to one another.
	www.therfcc.org /brewster%27s-angle-177193.html (142 words)

	Brewster's angle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Brewster's angle is an optical phenomenon first discovered by Sir David Brewster (1781 - 1868), Scottish physicist.
		When light moves between two media of differing refractive index, light which is ''p - polarised with respect to the interface will not be reflected from the interface at one particular incident angle, known as Brewster's angle.
		A glass plate placed at Brewster's angle in a light beam can thus be used as a polariser.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Brewster's_angle.html (177 words)

	Sir David Brewster, Scottish Scientist
		Brewster had had an interest in the properties of light from an early age, having built a telescope at the age of ten.
		Brewster eventually became a teacher at St. Andrews and was later promoted to principal there.
		In addition to being an inventor and innovator, Brewster also had significant influence over the development of photography, which was still in its growing stages during his life.
	www.visitrannoch.com /david-brewster.htm (472 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS Baltimorean David Brewster Brings Uneven Zeal to His Bleak Scenes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Though Brewster’s inanimate elements present only the barest suggestion of narrative, the results are frequently more compelling than his murky landscapes—and indeed, one of his most successful compositions, “Outside Killbride,” seamlessly combines his yen for swirling phantasmagoria with his skill at rendering a darkened room.
		Using reductive techniques, Brewster scrapes away thin layers of paint, revealing the grain of the canvas and delicately delineating the curvature of the steer’s horns.
		Brewster treats the cow’s gaping wound the same way he would treat a swirl of storm clouds, and it works.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/story.asp?id=9428 (863 words)

	David Brewster - Wikipedia
		Zusammen mit Robert Jameson gründete David Brewster 1819 das Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, das er von 1824 bis 1832 allein herausgab.
		Brewster verfasste auch viele Artikel für die 7.
		Literatur von und über David Brewster im Katalog der DDB
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Brewster (145 words)

	ISS: Biography of David Brewster
		I said "Well, Brewster, what do you think of it?" and he said only "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy." Lord Brougham also declared that Brewster never told him that he had changed his opinion.
		Home's where he stated as is affirmed on the written testimony of persons present, his impression that the phenomena were most striking and startling, and he does not appear then to have expressed any doubt of their genuineness, but he afterwards did so in an offensive manner.
		Brewster threatened a libel action but though, in the second edition, Home enlarged the evidence, he never carried out his threat.
	www.survivalafterdeath.org /researchers/brewster.htm (1058 words)

	Brewster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		David Brewster was an English physicist known within color research as being responsible for a theory of light which held that each portion of the spectrum was actually composed of three individual types of light which had the primary colors of red, yellow and blue.
		Brewster's theory of the physics of light was refutable on two counts: his reliance on colored filters which led him to pick subtractive primary colors, and Maxwell's soon to be discovered relationships between energy, frequency and index of refraction.
		Although Brewster thought he was plotting curves describing the physical composition of light, since his theory was based on observations made by the eye he ended up plotting the first approximate trichromat color sensitivity curves [Brewster 1831].
	kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu /steve_boker/ColorVision2/node6.html (274 words)

	Sir David Brewster—scientist, creationist, preacher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		David Brewster did much to make science popular among the masses, but when ‘Darwinism’ began to be approved, he viewed the trend as ‘folly’.
		David was an advantaged child whose father’s intellectual activities as Rector of the Grammar School in Jedburgh, and studies at Edinburgh University, provided manuscripts for a precocious boy to pore over.
		It was Brewster’s research on the construction of the lens of the eye which confirmed the existence of an ordered fibrous arrangement of its parts.
	www.answersingenesis.org /docs/3513.asp (1454 words)

	David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
		The partnership of David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and Robert Adamson (1821-1848) is one of the most significant and intriguing in the history of photography.
		Brewster had a unique relationship with the inventor of photography on paper, William Henry Fox Talbot.
		Brewster introduced Hill to Adamson and overcame the artist's skepticism as to the value of photography.
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /hillandadamson/handa.html (854 words)

	Skeptic (Altadena, CA): The amazing speaking machine of Sir David Brewster.(scientist David Brewster's reports on a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SCOTSMAN SIR DAVID BREWSTER (1781-1868) was a remarkable intellect.
		Though he is, unfairly, best known for his invention of the kaleidoscope, he also developed the mathematics of the polarization of light, and made substantial improvements in the design of the stereoscope, besides many other accomplishments.
		Brewster was, in many ways, rather naive about the real world.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:116184155&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (220 words)

	Features
		David Brewster was born in a small village of Scotland, on December 11, 1781.
		During his experimental work, Brewster noted "the circular arrangement of images of a candle round a center, and the multiplication of the sector formed by the extremities of the plates of glasses" used as mirrors.
		Brewster next conceived an instrument that attained perfect symmetry, and he displayed it to entertain some of his colleagues at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
	www.sas.org /E-Bulletin/2001-11-30/features2/features.html (503 words)

	David Brewster : David Brewtser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir David Brewster, (1781—1868), Scottish scientist, was born on December 11, 1781 at Jedburgh[?], where his father, a teacher of high reputation, was rector of the grammar school.
		Even before this, however, he had shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a "self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame—James Veitch[?] of Inchbonny[?], who was particularly skilful in making telescopes.
		Though he duly finished his theological course and was licensed to preach, Brewster's preference for other pursuits prevented him from engaging in the active duties of his profession.
	www.eurofreehost.com /da/David_Brewtser.html (293 words)

	Town Hall Seattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		David Brewster, founder of Town Hall Seattle, has announced that he plans to step down as its executive director this fall.
		Brewster may play an ongoing role in Town Hall’s programming and is serving on the committee looking for his successor.
		Brewster spearheaded a group of mid-sized arts organizations that had worked since 1989 to find a common home, and had negotiated with the church for seven years.
	www.townhallseattle.org /BrewsterRelease.cfm (986 words)

	Allens Arthur Robinson: David Brewster
		David previously worked with the ACCC for over four years and as Assistant Director of the ACCC’s Queensland State office was involved in the investigation and litigation of numerous cases in the Federal Court involving price fixing, misleading conduct, unconscionable conduct and the only merger case to result in a pecuniary penalty.
		David has also obtained a Master of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology, with a focus on trade practices and intellectual property law.
		David is admitted to practice in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.
	www.aar.com.au /experts/cv.asp?ID=davidbrewster (263 words)

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