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    Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA Scot FSSA MICE (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a British 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., known professionally as Dave East, is an American rapper. East began his career in 2010, and gained attention in 2014 for...
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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, Kansas Brewster, Massachusetts Brewster (CDP), Massachusetts Brewster, Minnesota Brewster, Nebraska Brewster, New York Brewster (Metro-North station)...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • self-described 'cringe' rapper named Razzlekhan. Farivar, Cyrus; Jeans, David; Brewster, Thomas (17 March 2022). "Razzlekhan: The Untold Story Of How A YouTube...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • American politician David Brewster (disambiguation), many people Diane Brewster (1931–1991), American actress Elizabeth Brewster (1922–2012), Canadian...
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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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  • 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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  • local club, Wanderers, in 1884 to form Limavady F.C. Club historian David Brewster, however, dates the current Limavady club's formation to 1955. After...
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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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    Narosa. p. 110. ISBN 978-81-7319-159-6. Retrieved 20 October 2013. Sliney, David H.; Wangemann, Robert T.; Franks, James K.; Wolbarsht, Myron L. (1976)....
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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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