A Treatise on the Kaleidoscope

203 Pages·1819·7.842 MB·English

by  Sir David Brewster

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TREATISE
ON THE
KALEIDOSCOPE.
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To
SIR GEORGE STEWART MACKENZIE,
OF COUL, BART. F.R.S.
PRESIDENT or THE PHYSICAL CLASS OFTHE RoyAL
socIETY of EDINBURGH,ANDVICE PRESIDENT or
THE SOCIETY OF SCOTTISH ANTIQUARIES.
&c.&c.&c.
As you were the first person who
saw the Kaleidoscope, and predicted its po
pularity, I am naturally led to lay the fol
lowing description of it before the public,
under the sanction ofyour name.
I might have been more flattered with
the interest which you took in the success
ofthis instrument, and with the assistance
I have so often received from you in other
researches, had I been less acquainted with
the zeal and ardour with which you have
devoted yourselfto the promotion ofevery
public utility—
object of science, and of