Brewster, (Sir) David (1781—1868), professeur de physique à l’Université de St. Andrews. À publié en 1810—1830 The Edinburgh Encyclopædia, 18 vol., et en 1819—1824, en collaboration avec R. Jameson, The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal I—X. À l’époque de sa correspondance avec Berzelius (1816—1820), il habitait Edimbourg. La correspondance traite particulièrement des questions de rédaction et des sujets minéralogiques.
Sir,
Although I have not the honour of your acquaintance I have taken the liberty of writing you to request the favour of your assistance in a particular department of the Edinburgh Encyclopædia of which I am Editor.
The subject of definite Proportions to the advancement of which you have contributed more than any other individual, has not yet been treated in our work although we are now so far as the letter I. Dr. Thomson who wrote an article on Chemistry omitted it altogether, as the subject had then made very little progress, and I would naturally have applied to him for the article on Definite Proportions; but he has some time ago written one on the same subject for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica.
