Their accuracy has been called into question, however ( e. g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of 19th-century translations and editions of Beowulf ), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.

President King, the leader of Walden College, was originally intended as a parody of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, but all that remains of that is a certain physical resemblance.

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

David Brewster was born at the Canongate in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire to Margaret Key ( 1753 – 1790 ) and James Brewster ( c. 1735 – 1815 ), the rector of Jedburgh Grammar School and a teacher of high reputation.

Though Brewster duly finished his theological studies and was licensed to preach, his other interests distracted him from the duties of his profession.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

As a reflection of this fame, Brewster portrait was later printed in some cigar boxes.

Although Brewster patented kaleidoscope in 1817 ( GB 4136 ), a copy of the prototype was shown to London opticians and copied before the patent was granted.

An instrument of more significance, the stereoscope, which – though of much later date ( 1849 ) – along with the kaleidoscope did more than anything else to popularize his name, was not as has often been asserted the invention of Brewster.

Although Fresnel, who had also the satisfaction of being the first to put it into operation, perfected the dioptric apparatus independently, Brewster was active earlier in the field than Fresnel, describing the dioptric apparatus in 1812.

Brewster pressed its adoption on those in authority at least as early as 1820, two years before Fresnel suggested it, and it was finally introduced into lighthouses mainly through Brewster's persistent efforts.

Its first meeting was held at York in 1831 ; and Brewster, along with Babbage and Sir John F. W. Herschel, had the chief part in shaping its constitution.

Of a high-strung and nervous temperament, Brewster was somewhat irritable in matters of controversy ; but he was repeatedly subjected to serious provocation.

Brewster died in 1868, and was buried at Melrose Abbey, next to his first wife and second son.

Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City.

The town was officially incorporated in 1694, and originally included the lands of the current town of Brewster.

Sir David Brewster began work leading towards invention of the kaleidoscope in 1815 when he was conducting experiments on light polarization but it was not patented until two years later.

William Brewster, a former diplomatic assistant to the Netherlands, was living in the Scrooby manor house, serving as postmaster for the village and bailiff to the Archbishop of York.

In 1815, Brewster experimented with higher-quality materials and showed that this angle was a function of the refractive index, defining Brewster's law.

Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.

In 2011, Maxim Magazine placed Brewster at spot 11 in Maxims Hot 100.

Educationally, the community is served by Brewster School which houses Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade and is part of the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District.

" In addition to the various works of Brewster already mentioned, the following may be added: Notes and Introduction to Carlyle's translation of Legendre's Elements of Geometry ( 1824 ); Treatise on Optics ( 1831 ); Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott ( 1832 ); The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler ( 1841 ); More Worlds than One ( 1854 ).

* Margaret Maria Gordon ( 1823 – 1907 ) wrote a book on Brewster, which is considered the most comprehensive description of his life.

Brewster married second time in Nice, on 26 ( or 27 ) March 1857, to Jane Kirk Purnell ( b. 1827 ), the second daughter of Thomas Purnell of Scarborough.

Joey dates Kathy ( Paget Brewster ) a girl that Chandler has a crush on.

Cape Cod's largest inland body of water, Long Pond, lies on the Brewster border as well as several other smaller bodies of water.

Harwich is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes ( with the exception of Brewster ) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.

Realising that the company could not meet this level of demand, Brewster requested permission from Carpenter on 17 May 1818 for the device to be made by other manufacturers, to which he agreed.

During a speech by O ' Leary, in which she claimed that drag queens made fun of women for entertainment value and profit, Sylvia Rivera and Lee Brewster jumped on the stage and shouted " You go to bars because of what drag queens did for you, and these bitches tell us to quit being ourselves!

Yale President Richard Levin attributes the run to Yale ’ s focus on creating " a laboratory for future leaders ," an institutional priority that began during the tenure of Yale Presidents Alfred Whitney Griswold and Kingman Brewster.

Wellfleet is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable district, which includes ( with the exception of Brewster ) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape.

In 1984, he tried out for the part of Henry on the show Punky Brewster.

The earliest reference to the term " Pinhole " has been traced back to almost a century before Brewster to James Ferguson's Lectures on select Subjects.

Presidio County is triangular in shape and is bounded on the east by Brewster County, on the north by Jeff Davis County, and on the south and west for by the Rio Grande and Mexico.

The county is bounded on the east by Brewster County, on the north by Jeff Davis County, and on the south and west for by the Rio Grande and Mexico along which it faces on its south side the Manuel Benavides and Ojinaga Districts of the state of Chihuaha, Mexico and on its southwestern side the municipality of Guadalupe of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico.

During the American Civil War, Brewster served on the staffs of the two highest ranking Texans in the Confederate Army, General Albert S. Johnston and General John B.

Spanish explorers Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1535 and Antonio de Espejo in 1583 crossed Brewster County on their way to La Junta de los Ríos, the juncture of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos.

** C. v. ridgwayi ( Brewster, 1885 )-Masked Bobwhite-north central Sonora

* Brewster Buffalo, or Brewster F2A, a U. S. fighter plane which saw extensive service with both Allied and Axis air forces during World War II

* 1781 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist ( d. 1868 )

Inner picture of a cigar box from the early 1900s with a portrait of Brewster.

Brewster chose renowned achromatic lens developer Philip Carpenter as the sole manufacturer of the kaleidoscope in 1817.

As a consequence, kaleidoscope became produced in large numbers, but yielded no direct financial benefits to Brewster.

The Brewster stereoscope, 1849.