David Brewster
1781 – 1868
Books
- Ferguson's Astronomy, explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles
- Ferguson's lectures on select subjects
- Ferguson's lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialing. With notes and an appendix adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences
- Parker & Delaplaine's American edition of the new Edinburgh encyclopaedia
- The kaleidoscope, its history, theory and construction
- Optics
- A treatise on the microscope
- Life of Sir Isaac Newton
- On the laws which regulate the distribution of the polarising force in plates, tubes, and cylinders of glass, that have received the polarising structure
- Description of a monochromatic lamp for microscopical purposes, &c
- On circular polarisation, as exhibited in the optical structure of the amethyst, with remarks on the distribution of the colouring matter in that mineral
- On the colours of natural bodies
- On the action of uncrystallised films upon common and polarised light
- Letters on natural magic, addressed to Sir W. Scott
- The martyrs of science
- Letters on natural magic addressed to Sir Walter Scott, bart
- On the effects of compression and dilatation in altering the polarising structure of doubly refracting crystals
- Description of a new darkening glass for solar observations
- A treatise on new philosophical instruments, for various purposes in the arts and sciences
- On new properties of heat, as exhibited in its propagation along plates of glass
- An examination of the letter addressed to Principal Hill, on the case of Mr. Leslie, in a letter to its anonymous author
- Double refraction and polarisation of light
- Letters on natural magic
- A popular treatise on magnetism
- On the lines of the solar spectrum
- On the polarisation of light by oblique transmission through all bodies, whether crystallized or uncrystallized
- Observations on the lines of the solar spectrum, and on those produced by the earth's atmosphere, and by the action of nitrous acid gas
- On the compensations of polarized light, with the description of a polarimeter, for measuring degrees of polarization
- The life of Sir Isaac Newton
- More worlds than one
- Method of using the patent kaleidoscope
- A treatise on the kaleidoscope
- A treatise on optics
- The stereoscope
- The martyrs of science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
- On the refractive power of the two new fluids in minerals
- On the structure of the crystalline lens in fishes and quadrupeds, as ascertained by its action on polarized light
- On a new analysis of solar light, indicating three primary colours, forming coincident spectra of equal length
- A treatise on optics
- Letters on natural magic
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