Brewster, Sir David (male) 12/10/1781 - 02/10/1868 Scottish University of Edinburgh
Scientist; founded Scottish Society of Arts; principal of Univ. of St. Andrews; invented lens for lighthouses, kaleidoscope; wrote Treatise on the Microscope (1837), Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler (1841), other works. See Boase I: 394, ODNB.
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