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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...
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    perfectly polarized. The angle is named after the Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster (1781–1868). When light encounters a boundary between two media with...
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  • Look up brewster in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brewster may refer to: Brewster (surname) Brewster Kahle (born 1960), American computer technologist...
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    presented. The term "kaleidoscope" was coined by its Scottish inventor David Brewster. It is derived from the Ancient Greek word καλός (kalos), "beautiful...
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    Dave East (redirect from David Brewster Jr.)
    David Lawrence Brewster Jr., (born June 3, 1988) known professionally as Dave East, is an American rapper. East began his career in 2010, and gained attention...
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  • David Brewster (1781–1868) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. David Brewster may also refer to: David P. Brewster (1801–1876), U.S. Representative...
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    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...
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    Brewster is a small lunar impact crater in the northern fringes of Sinus Amoris. It was named after the Scottish scientist, Sir David Brewster. Its diameter...
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    David Brewster (born 1960) is an American painter active in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. Brewster was born in Baltimore, Maryland...
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  • David Brewster LL.B., (1964 – 20 January 2021) was a Northern Irish solicitor, unionist politician, community activist and historian from Limavady, County...
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    assertion, David Brewster did not invent the stereoscope, as he himself was often at pains to make clear. A rival of Wheatstone, Brewster credited the...
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    contact with scientists such as Andrew Crosse, Charles Babbage, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone and Michael Faraday, and the author Charles Dickens...
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  • David Clark Brewster (born September 26, 1939) is an American journalist and the founder, editor and publisher of the Seattle Weekly and the Northwest...
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  • of the polarizing microscope is typically attributed to David Brewster around 1815, Brewster clearly acknowledges the priority of Henry Fox Talbot, who...
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  • is named after David Brewster, who discovered stress-induced birefringence in 1816. "eFunda: Glossary: Units: Photoelastic Work: Brewster". www.efunda.com...
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    Paget Valerie Brewster (/ˈpædʒɪt/ PAJ-it; born March 10, 1969) is an American actress. She first received recognition for her recurring role as Kathy on...
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    determination of the orbits of comets, and much more. Newton's biographer David Brewster reported that the complexity of applying his theory of gravity to the...
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    The Brewster F2A Buffalo is an American fighter aircraft which saw service early in World War II. Designed and built by the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation...
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  • writer, editor Craig Brewster (born 1966), Scottish footballer Daniel Brewster (1923–2007), American politician David Brewster (disambiguation), many...
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    must have been read eventually by many more people. It was reviewed by David Brewster in the Edinburgh Magazine in December 1802, appeared in chemistry textbooks...
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  • Romagnosi, Italian physicist, economist, and jurist (d. 1835) 1781 – David Brewster, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1868) 1801 –...
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  • advertising agency Heckler Bowker. Bowker met David Brewster at the magazine, years later funding the launch of Brewster's Seattle Weekly and writing restaurant...
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    von Haast named the peak after Scottish physicist David Brewster. The first ascent of Mount Brewster was made in January 1929 by Samuel Turner, Eric Miller...
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    was discovered by David Brewster upon heating a sample of topaz. After heating, the topaz lost mass, and through examination Brewster concluded Topaz was...
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  • Jonathan David Brewster (born 1967) is a British Anglican priest. Since September 2023, he has been Dean of Carlisle. From 2021 to 2023, Previously, he...
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  • David Payne Brewster (June 15, 1801 – February 20, 1876) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from New York...
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  • Brewster's Millions is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Walter Hill. The film stars Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, and...
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    until 1815 that Sir David Brewster was able to experiment with higher quality glasses and correctly formulate what is known as Brewster's law. This law was...
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    have the form of cubic icositetrahedra but, as first observed by Sir David Brewster in 1821, they are not optically isotropic, and are therefore pseudo-cubic...
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    "Mountain of Light". After consulting mineralogists, including Sir David Brewster, Victoria's husband Prince Albert with the consent of the government...
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