Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for David Brewster across 4 places, from 1753 to 1868.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Sir David Brewster (11 December 1781 to 10 February 1868) was a Scottish scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place David Brewster is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where David Brewster was documented, and when
1753 to 1790period
Jedburghattested“David Brewster was born in the Canongate in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, to Margaret Key (1753–1790) and James Brewster (c.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
1753 to 1790period
Canongateattested“David Brewster was born in the Canongate in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, to Margaret Key (1753–1790) and James Brewster (c.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
17 August 1815exact date
Indiaattested“*David Edward Brewster (17 August 1815 - 1878) became a military officer (Lieutenant Colonel) serving in India and laird of the Belleville estate in Badenoch on the death of his aunt, Ann Macpherson, in 1862.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
1868year
Melrose Abbeyattested“Brewster died in 1868, and was buried at Melrose Abbey, next to his first wife and second son.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
Open Quo Fuit to see these 4 presences on the
globe, filter them by date, and follow the journey year by year.
In each of these, a source puts David Brewster and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that David Brewster was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1799 to 1803period
Edinburghmentioned“He began writing in 1799 as a regular contributor to the Edinburgh Magazine, of which he acted as editor 1802–1803 at the age of twenty.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
1800year
Edinburghmentioned“He received his MA in 1800, was licensed as a minister of the Church of Scotland, and then preached around Edinburgh on several occasions.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
31 July 1810exact date
Edinburghmentioned“They married on 31 July 1810 in Edinburgh and had four sons and a daughter: *James (1812–) *Charles Macpherson (1813–1828), drowned.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
1817year
Londonmentioned“Although Brewster patented the kaleidoscope in 1817 (GB 4136), a copy of the prototype was shown to London opticians and copied before the patent was granted.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
1823 to 1839period
Edinburghmentioned“Elliot, a "Teacher of Mathematics" from Edinburgh, who, according to Brewster, had conceived of the principles as early as 1823 and had constructed a lensless and mirrorless prototype in 1839, through which one could view drawn landscape…”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
1831year
Yorkmentioned“Its first meeting was held at York in 1831; and Brewster, along with Babbage and Sir John Herschel, had the chief part in shaping its constitution.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
1843year
Scotlandmentioned“It was Brewster who suggested Talbot only patent his process in England, initiating the development of early photography in Scotland and eventually allowing for the formation of the first photographic society in the world, the Edinburgh…”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
1843year
Englandmentioned“It was Brewster who suggested Talbot only patent his process in England, initiating the development of early photography in Scotland and eventually allowing for the formation of the first photographic society in the world, the Edinburgh…”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
March 1857month
Nicementioned“Brewster married a second time in Nice, on 26 (or 27) March 1857, to Jane Kirk Purnell (b.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
30 June 1860exact date
Oxfordmentioned“Lady Brewster famously fainted at the Oxford evolution debate of 30 June 1860.”source: Wikipedia: David Brewster
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.
How to read this page
Every line above is a dated fact taken from a source, with the sentence it came from and a link
back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
Sentences quoted from Wikipedia are available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Public domain books come from
Project Gutenberg. Quo Fuit claims no rights over these sources.
See David Brewster on a 3D globe, filter the record by date, and cross this life with another to find
where the two overlap.
