David Brewster
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| - | "'''Maelzel's Chess Player'''" ([[1836]]) is an [[essay]] by [[Edgar Allan Poe]] exposing a fraudulent [[automaton]] [[chess]] player called [[The Turk]], which had become famous in [[Europe]] and the [[United States]] and toured widely. The fake automaton was invented by [[Wolfgang von Kempelen]] in [[1769]] and was brought to the U.S. in [[1825]] by [[Johann Nepomuk Mälzel]] after von Kempelen's death. | + | '''Sir David Brewster''' <small>[[Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order|KH]] [[President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|PRSE]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society of London|FRS]] [[Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland|FSA(Scot)]] [[Fellow of the Scottish Society of Arts|FSSA]] [[Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers|MICE]]</small> (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer, [[historian of science]] and [[Principal (academia)|university principal]]. |
| - | Although it is the most famous essay on the Turk, many of Poe's hypotheses were incorrect. He also may or may not have been aware of earlier articles written in the ''Baltimore Gazette'' where two youths were reported to have seen chess player [[William Schlumberger]] climbing out of the machine. He did, however, borrow heavily from [[David Brewster]]'s ''Letters on Natural Magic''. Other essays and article had been written and published prior to Poe's in [[Baltimore]], [[Philadelphia]], and [[Boston]] - cities in which Poe had lived or visited before writing his essay. | + | ==See also== |
| + | * [[Brewster's angle]] | ||
| + | * [[Coddington magnifier]] | ||
| + | * [[Brewster crater]] | ||
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Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA(Scot) FSSA MICE (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer, historian of science and university principal.
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