Author:David Brewster

Sir David Brewster
(1781–1868)

Sir David Brewster

Works

• A Treatise on New Philosophical Instruments (1813) (external scan)
• A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope (1819) (external scan)
• A System of Mechanical Philosophy with John Robison and James Watt (1822) (external scan)
• Letters of Euler on Different Subjects in Natural Philosophy: Addressed to a German Princess … with Leonhard Euler and John Griscom (1833) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• The life of Sir Isaac Newton (1836) (external scan)
• A Treatise on Magnetism (1837) (external scan)
• A Treatise on Optics (1837) (external scan)
• Letters on Natural Magic: Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (1839) (external scan)
• Note on Copyright, (1840)
• The Martyrs of Science, or, the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler (1841) (external scan)
• More Worlds Than One. the Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian (1854)
• The Stereoscope (1856) (external scan)
• The Kaleidoscope: Its History, Theory, and Construction with Its Application to the Fine and Useful Arts (1858) (external scan)
• The history of free masonry and the Grand lodge of Scotland with William Alexander Laurie (1859) (external scan)
• The Facts and Fancies of Mr. Darwin (1862)
• ''Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• "Discovery of gravitation, A.D. 1666" in The Great Events by Famous Historians edited by Rossiter Johnson, Volume XII, pp. 51-65, (1905) (external scan)
• "Additional Observations on the Optical Properties and Structure of heated Glass and unannealed glass Drops" in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 2 (1815), pp. 1–2
• "Experiments on the Depolarization of Light as exhibited by various mineral, animal, and vegetable Bodies, with a Reference of the Phenomena to the general Principles of Polarization" in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 2 (1815), pp. 4–6
• "On the Effects of simple Pressure in producing that Species of Crystallization which forms two oppositely polarized Images, and exhibits the complementary Colours by polarized Light" in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 2 (1815), pp. 7–8
• "On the laws which regulate the polarization of light by reflection from transparent bodies" in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 2 (1815), pp. 14–16

Works about Brewster

• "Sketch of Sir David Brewster" in Popular Science Monthly, 26 (February 1885)
• "Brewster, Sir David," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Brewster, David," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Brewster, Sir David," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Brewster, Sir David," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)