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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.
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]
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 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 ...
Brewster was born at Ballinulta, the son of William Bagenal Brewster, of Ballinulta, County Wicklow, by his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Bates.He received his earlier education at Kilkenny College, then proceeded to Trinity College Dublin in 1812, took his B.A. degree in 1817, and long after, in 1847, his M.A. degree.
William Brewster was characterized in a 1992 biography as the "father of New England" [30]: 1 and a "sine qua non of the entire Pilgrim adventure, its backbone, its brain and its conscience." [30]: 1 Brewster is also the subject of a one-act play, The Separatist, published in 1934, written by Hamilton playwright Mary P. Hamlin. [31]
His proposers were Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, Thomas Charles Hope, and Sir David Brewster. [3] From 1820 to 1834 he was the Curator of its library and museum. He was active in the Scottish Society of Antiquaries. [1] He was secretary to the Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland. [4]