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Description: | The Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments of the University of St Andrews includes many instruments connected with optics. Among objects of particular note is a Gregorian Reflecting Telescope made by James Short in 1736, then the largest telescope he had made. There is a microscope used by Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) which was designed by Andrew Ross & Co. of London (a leading microscope manufacturer of the time). Brewster is chiefly remembered for his discoveries in optics, in particular for Brewster’s angle, the angle at which light reflected from a surface is totally plane-polarised. Brewster also invented the kaleidoscope; an example from about 1850, which may have been used by Brewster, is in the Collection. | Subjects: | TELESCOPE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS ASTRONOMY INSTRUMENT MICROSCOPE PHYSICS KALEIDOSCOPE OPTICS | Source: | University of St Andrews | Address: | KY16 9AJ | Creator: | University of St Andrews | Contributor: | University of St Andrews | Identifier: | PH:C95 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | MC:C48 |
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