Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA Scot FSSA MICE (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator. In science he is principally remembered for his experimental work in physical optics, mostly concerned with the study of the polarization of light and including the discovery of Brewster's angle.
The Edinburgh Encyclopædia is an encyclopaedia in 18 volumes, printed and published by William Blackwood and edited by David Brewster between 1808 and 1830. In competition with the Edinburgh-published Encyclopædia Britannica , [ 1 ] the Edinburgh Encyclopædia is generally considered to be strongest on scientific topics, where many of the ...
Sir David Brewster, Scottish scientist John Brockman , specializing authorship in the scientific literature Jacob Bronowski , mathematician, biologist, historian of science, author, and pioneering science broadcaster
The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781–1868) [174] Keiller's marmalade Janet Keiller (1797) - The first recipe of rind suspended marmalade or Dundee marmalade produced in Dundee. The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801–1845) [175] The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897) [176]
The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781–1868) [144] Keiller's marmalade Janet Keiller (1797) – The first recipe of rind suspended marmalade or Dundee marmalade produced in Dundee. The modern lawnmower – Edwin Beard Budding (1830) [145] The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897) [146]
A rival of Wheatstone, Brewster credited the invention of the device to a Mr. Elliot, a "Teacher of Mathematics" from Edinburgh, who, according to Brewster, conceived of the idea as early as 1823 and, in 1839, constructed "a simple stereoscope without lenses or mirrors", consisting of a wooden box 18 inches (46 cm) long, 7 inches (18 cm) wide ...
Since then, people have begun to understand the concept of stereo view. Wheatstone's invention was impractical until Sir David Brewster, a Scottish physicist and experimenter of optics, discovered that a 3D effect could be observed in repeated patterns with small difference in 1844. Brewster used what he discovered in building the stereo camera.
At first scientists ignored the book and it took time before hostile reviews were published, but the book was then publicly denounced by scientists, preachers, and statesmen. Notably, Sir David Brewster, wrote a very critical review of the work in the North British Review, where he stated: