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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.
Brewster was the author of Essays in Trade and Navigation.In Five Parts, London 1695.The first part only was published; but in 1702 he issued New Essays on Trade, wherein the present state of our Trade, its great decay in the chief branches of it, and the fatal consequences thereof to the Nation (unless timely remedy'd), is considered under the most important heads of Trade and Navigation, London.
Brewster was the son of Robert Brewster of Wrentham Hall, Suffolk, by his wife Amy, daughter of Sir Thomas Corbet of Sprowston, Norfolk (Sprowston Hall). [1] He was therefore a nephew of the regicide Miles Corbet. [2] He matriculated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge at Easter 1642 and was admitted at Gray's Inn on 26 May 1646.
The Brewster arms on the monument of Humphrey Brewster (1593), Wrentham. The Tudor brick mansion of Wrentham Hall (now lost) is said to have been built around 1550 by Humphrey Brewster, Esq. (c. 1527–1593), the elder son of Robert Brewster and his wife, daughter of Sir Christopher Edmonds of Cressing Temple, Essex. [2]
Sir Joshua Allen 1674–1675 Sir Francis Brewster: 1675–1676 William Smith 1676–1677 Christopher Lovet 1677–1678 John Smith 1678–1679 Peter Ward 1679–1680 John Eastwood 1680–1681 Luke Lowther 1681–1683 Sir Humphrey Jervis: 1683–1684 Sir Elias Best 1684–1685 Sir Abel Ram 1685–1686 Sir John Knox: 1686–1687 Sir John Castleton
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 ...
William Brewster (c. 1566/67 – 10 April 1644) was an English official and Mayflower passenger in 1620. He became senior elder and the leader of Plymouth Colony, by virtue of his education and existing stature with those immigrating from the Netherlands, being a Brownist (or Puritan Separatist).
Eventually she passed her notes on to Henry Brewster, a personal friend and writer, so that he could write a libretto. American by birth, Brewster had been brought up in France, and it was agreed that the libretto should be in French, partly because Brewster was happier working in French but also because it was felt that there was a more ...