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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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    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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  • Brewster, Kansas Brewster, Massachusetts Brewster (CDP), Massachusetts Brewster, Minnesota Brewster, Nebraska Brewster, New York Brewster (Metro-North station)...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    the speaking machine of De Kempelen, and endorsed the opinion of Sir David Brewster, that before the end of this century a singing and talking apparatus...
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  • David Brewster) added to that memoir after doing more research. She published The Nazis Knew My Name in 2022. Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee, and David Brewster...
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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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  • American politician David Brewster (disambiguation), many people Diane Brewster (1931–1991), American actress Elizabeth Brewster (1922–2012), Canadian...
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    publications and propagated continually ever since. Astronomer Sir David Brewster also rejected Laplace, writing in 1876 that "those who believe in the...
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    photography is found in the 1856 book The Stereoscope by Scottish inventor David Brewster, including the description of the idea as "a camera without lenses,...
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    sunlight. A number of color theorists did not agree with Newton's work. David Brewster advocated that red, yellow, and blue light could be combined into any...
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    the centuries as early as 1833 in "The Life of Sir Isaac Newton" by David Brewster and later in St. Nicholas Magazine. In 1816 Walter Scott used the story...
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  • threaten the existence of the Assassins in London. He is killed by Evie. David Brewster is a scientist working on a Piece of Eden at the behest of the Templar...
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