Sir+David+Brewster

= ** D a v i d B r e w s t e r ** =

By: Kim Fullenkamp and Ariel Hardy
Sir David Brewster was born December 11, 1781 in Jedburgh, a town in the Scottish lowlands. He died April 1868 at age 77.

= __Early Life__ =  David Brewster's early life was mostly spent at Scrooby, Nottinghamshir, with his three brothers, and was recognized as a child prodigy. At the young age 10 he made his first telescope. Then, when he was only 12 years old he was sent to the University of Edinburgh. His separatist ideas were obtained when he went to Peterhouse College, Cambridge.

= __Later Life (and some ancestry)__ =

 Sir David Brewster's ancestor joined the first group of Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620 and he was the only one who was university trained of the community. David Brewster and John Robinson led the Puritan migration to Amsterdam in 1808 and the move to Leiden in 1809. Later (in 1810) Brewer got married to Juliet McPherson and had 5 kids (4 daughters and 1 son). Their happy marriage lasted forty years until his wife's death. He made one of his first major discoveries in 1811 when he found useful scientific results on Buffon's Needle Theory. Then in 1816 Brewster invented the kaleidoscope.

= __Education__ =  He was a university-trained member of the Plymouth community and was the real leader of the church. He was a good mathematician, experimenter in astronomy, polarization of light and spectroscopy. Something Sir David didn't like was theories that opposed his loyalty to God. After getting a degree of M.A. from the University of Edinburgh in 1800 he devoted himself to the study of optics.

= **__Occupations__** = Brewster wasn't just an inventor he perused many other careers as well. At one point he was a pastor. In Holland, Brewster made his living by printing Puritan books by English authors and sending them to England. Later he became a scientist and went into the field of optics (which was pretty much his life long interest). He then invented the kaleidoscope.

= **__Invention__** = In 1816, the kaleidoscope was invented by Sir David Brewster, and patented by him in 1817. The word kaleidoscope is Greek, and it means kalos: beautiful, eidos: form, and scopos: watcher. When you put that together you get the word kaleidoscope which means beautiful form watcher. The kaleidoscopes is a tube containing loose pieces of colored glass, reflected by mirrors or any other glass lenses set at angles.They create symmetrical patterns when you look through the end and turn to see different designs. = =

= To make your own kaleidoscope design got to http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html. =

= __**Bibliography**__ =

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