Hard Cover
1845 · Philadelphia
by Brewster, Sir David; Bache, A. D
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, light pencil marginalia. 1845 Hard Cover. 323, 95 pp. Brewster was a Scottish scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator. In science he is principally remembered for his experimental work in physical optics, mostly concerned with the study of the polarization of light and including the discovery of Brewster's angle. He studied the birefringence of crystals under compression and discovered photoelasticity, thereby creating the field of optical mineralogy. For this work, William Whewell dubbed him the "father of modern experimental (truncated)