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Description: | Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) was one of the most eminent scientists of his period, and made many discoveries in the field of optics. The inventor of the kaleidoscope and the lenticular stereoscope, his name is immortalised in ‘Brewster’s Law’, which gives the angle at which light reflected from a surface is totally plane polarised.
Brewster was Principal of the University’s United College, 1838-1859. Several items in the Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments are directly associated with him, including a microscope made by Andrew Ross and Co. of London about 1840, which he is known to have used, and a kaleidoscope made by Dollond, London, about 1850. An instrument in the Psychology Collection, Le Taxiphote, designed by Jules Richard, 1901, is a form of the refracting or lenticular stereoscope invented by Brewster in 1849. | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS STEREOSCOPE ASTRONOMY INSTRUMENT PHYSICS MICROSCOPE TEACHING KALEIDOSCOPE | Source: | University of St Andrews | Address: | KY16 9AJ | Creator: | University of St Andrews | Contributor: | University of St Andrews | Identifier: | PH:C93 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | MC:C48 |
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