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ID	10956
Last Name	Brewster
First Name	David
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Gender	Male
Date of Birth	1781-12-11
Date of Death	1868-02-10
Place of Birth	Roxburgh
Place of Death	Roxburgh
VIAF URI	http://viaf.org/viaf/2774127
Wikipedia Entry	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brewster
Image URL	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brewster#/media/File:David-Brewster.jpg
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Role	Title	Date
Editor	Parker & Delaplaine's American edition of the New Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by David Brewster, L.L.D. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Assisted by upwards of one hundred gentlemen in Europe, most eminent in science and literature. And now improved for the greater satisfaction and better information of the people of the United States, in the civil, religious & natural history of their country in American biography & in the great discoveries in mechanics & the arts.	1812
Editor	Ferguson's Lectures on select subjects, in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling. A new edition, corrected and enlarged, with notes and an appendix, adapted to the present state of the arts and sciences. By David Brewster. A.M. In two volumes, with a volume of plates. Second American Edition, carefully revised and corrected, By Robert Patterson, professor of mathematics, and teacher of natural philosophy, in the University of Pennsylvania.	1814

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