David Brewster

IX. On the laws which regulate the polarisation of light by reflexion from transparent bodies. By David Brewster, LL. D. F. R. S. Edin. and F. S. A. Edin. In a letter addressed to Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S

David Brewster · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London · 1815 · 143 citations

Optical Materials, Engineering, Wave Optic +26

Silk Roads and Strings of Pearls: The Strategic Geography of China’s New Pathways in the Indian Ocean

David Brewster · Geopolitics · 2016 · 124 citations

X. On the communication of the structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of soda, fluor spar, and other substances, by mechanical compression and dilatation. By David Brewster, LL. D. F. R. S. Lond. and Edin. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G. C. B. P. R. S

David Brewster · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London · 1816 · 84 citations

Optical Materials, Engineering, Glass-forming Liquid +17

Beyond the ‘String of Pearls’: is there really a Sino-Indian security dilemma in the Indian Ocean?

David Brewster · Journal of the Indian Ocean Region · 2014 · 56 citations · Full text

Security Dilemma, Strategic Competition, Engineering +14

III. Experiments on the depolarisation of light as exhibited by various mineral, animal, and vegetable bodies, with a reference of the phenomena to the general principles of polarisation. By David Brewster, LL. D. F. R. S. Edin and F. S. A. Edin. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S

David Brewster · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London · 1815 · 49 citations · Full text

History Of Science, Sir Joseph Banks, Physics +15