Site Represents a site. Show Point true Place The town or city Headmaster's House, St Leonards School End Date 1858 Prim Media 361 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource David Brewster's House Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1837 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived mathematicalycurious Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource naw4@st-andrews.ac.uk Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 164 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Subject The topic of the resource Natural Philosophy Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.339221,-2.790119; Description An account of the resource Symmetricity in reflections of light has an intrinsic attraction to human thinking. Which is why the Kaleidoscope is one of the most natural inventions we could use to introduce Sir David Brewster. A Scotsman, clergyman, philosopher, a historian and a prolific inventor; Sir Brewster showed particular interest in Optics and the polarisation of light; earning him the title of “The Father of experimental Optics” (Whewell, n.d.) from his peers. Brewster’s angle is one his most simple yet practical discoveries that lets us calculate the angle at which light must strike a substance for maximum polarization. It is a cornerstone in the development of modern fibre optics, lasers and material engineering. As a historian Sir Brewster developed an obsession with Sir Isaac Newton which led to him writing not one , but two separate biographies on Newton.First in 1831 he published the Life of Sir Isaac Newton. Then later in 1855 ,a much more more complete “Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton”. Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT