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Brewster, David

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Birth and Death Dates 1781-1868


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Article Fiona Amery (2020)
‘An Attempt to Trace Illusions to Their Physical Causes’: Atmospheric Mirages and the Performance of Their Demystification in the 1820s and 1830s. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 443-467). (/isis/citation/CBB116918002/) unapi

Article Bill Jenkins (2020)
Commercial Scientific Journals and Their Editors in Edinburgh, 1819–1832. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 69-81). (/isis/citation/CBB533586065/) unapi

Book Clifford J. Cunningham (2018)
Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research. (/isis/citation/CBB427365673/) unapi

Article P. E. Spargo (2016)
A Remarkable Vision – Brewster's 1822 Proposal for a ‘National Burning Apparatus’. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa (pp. 89-95). (/isis/citation/CBB480286873/) unapi

Article Vangelis Koutalis (2014)
Making discoveries for a better life vs. bringing fruits to the national treasury: Davy, Babbage, Brewster and the (ongoing) struggle for the soul of science. Almagest (pp. 52-109). (/isis/citation/CBB203024543/) unapi

Article Henry, John (2007)
Physics in Edinburgh: From Napier's Bones to Higgs's Boson. Physics in Perspective (p. 468). (/isis/citation/CBB000850204/) unapi

Article Higgitt, Rebekah (2003)
Newton dépossédé!” The British Response to the Pascal Forgeries of 1867. British Journal for the History of Science (p. 437). (/isis/citation/CBB000671083/) unapi

Article Colubi López, Mariano (1998)
Leyes físicas versus leyes experimentales: El intercambio de información entre Brewster y Biot acerca de la relación entre les leyes de doble refracción y las de polarización (1813-1819.). Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas (pp. 357-385). (/isis/citation/CBB000082314/) unapi

Article Chen, Xiang (1998)
Dispersion, experimental apparatus, and the acceptance of the wave theory of light. Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 401-420). (/isis/citation/CBB000077463/) unapi

Article Gray, Noël (1995)
Geometric constructions and the constructions of geometry. Research in Philosophy and Technology (pp. 21-36). (/isis/citation/CBB000067090/) unapi

Chapter Kemp, Martin (1994)
“Philosophy in sport” and the “sacred precincts”: Sir David Brewster on the kaleidoscope and stereoscope. In: Muse and reason: The relation of arts and sciences 1650-1850: A Royal Society Symposium (p. 203). (/isis/citation/CBB000067399/) unapi

Article Chen, Xiang; Barker, Peter (1992)
Cognitive appraisal and power: David Brewster, Henry Brougham, and the tactics of the emission-undulatory controversy during the early 1850s. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 75-101). (/isis/citation/CBB000043533/) unapi

Article Theerman, Paul (1985)
Unaccustomed role: The scientist as historical biographer--Two 19th-century portrayals of Newton. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly (pp. 145-162). (/isis/citation/CBB000052990/) unapi

Book Morrison-Low, A. D.; Christie, J. R. R. (1984)
“Martyr of science”: Sir David Brewster, 1781-1863: Proceedings of a bicentenary symposium held at the Royal Scottish Museum on 21 November 1981, together with a catalogue of scientific apparatus associated with Sir David Brewster, and a bibliography of his published writings. (/isis/citation/CBB000010930/) unapi

Book Brewster, David (1984)
Briefe über die natürliche Magie, an Sir Walter Scott. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Friedrich Wolff. (/isis/citation/CBB000066136/) unapi

Book Brewster, David; Wheatstone, Charles (1983)
Brewster and Wheatstone on vision. Edited by Wade, Nicholas J.. (/isis/citation/CBB000002570/) unapi

Article Brooke, John Hedley (1977)
Natural theology and the plurality of worlds: Observations on the Brewster-Whewell debate. Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 221-286). (/isis/citation/CBB000022456/) unapi

Thesis Morse, Edgar W. (1972)
Natural philosophy, hypotheses, and impiety: Sir David Brewster confronts the undulatory theory of light. (/isis/citation/CBB001563875/) unapi

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