"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"Brewster: Optics"
Details
Title
"Brewster: Optics"
Creator
David Brewster
Contributor
Thomas Ollive Mabbott [?], editorial assistants
Format
Photocopy of book
Description
Photocopy of pages 42-44 and 246-251 from Sir David Brewster's A Treatise on Optics (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833). (Note: there are two photocopies of pages 246-247 and 248-249.) Mabbott cites Brewster's Treatise along with his other books on vision in note 30 of his version of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
Relation
Thomas Ollive Mabbott's Research Files for the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Source
Papers of Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries; : "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. II: Tales and Sketches, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978), 521-574.