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BREWSTER-POLYMATH
Carte de visite portrait of Sir David Brewster 1781-1868) the Scottish polymath in the fields of physics,mathematics, astronomy and inventor, writer and university principal.
At the age of 12 he was sent to the University of Edinburgh (graduating MA in 1800). He was the inventor of the Kaleidoscope and Stereoscope, as well as the discoverer of the law of polarization of biaxial crystals, of optical mineralogy, and of double refraction by compression.
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