Site Represents a site. Show Point true Street The street address South Street 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 301 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Description An account of the resource David Brewster's House, Principal of St Andrews 1837-1859. Best known as the inventor of the kaleidoscope and an early developer of photography, Brewster (1781-1868) made major contributions to the field of optics, including the connection between refractive index and polarising angle, biaxial crystals, and the production of double refraction by irregular heating. He described the dioptric lens system, generally attributed to Fresnel, in 1812, and was largely responsible in getting it adopted by British lighthouses. His house, was subsequently occupied by the mineralogist M. Forster Heddle (1828-1897), and is now part of St Leonard's School. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1781 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource sjv1@st-andrews.ac.uk Subject The topic of the resource Natural Philosophy,Photography Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.339283732376224,-2.7891755104064946; Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT