Editing David Brewster (section)

===History of Scottish Freemasonry===
As well as his many scientific works and biographies of notable scientists, Brewster also wrote ''The History of Free Masonry, Drawn from Authentic Sources of Information; with an Account of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, from Its Institution in 1736, to the Present Time'',<ref>{{cite book |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009710912 |title=The history of freemasonry, drawn from authentic sources of information; with an account of the Grand lodge of Scotland, from its institution in 1736, to the present time, compiled from the records; and an appendix of original papers. |last=Brewster |first=David |year=1804 |location=Edinburgh |publisher=A. Lawrie and Co.}}</ref> published in 1804, when he was only 23. The work was commissioned by Alexander Lawrie, publisher to the [[Grand Lodge of Scotland]], to whom the work has been, frequently, mis-attributed. Given that the book bears Lawrie's name and not Brewster's this is understandable. The book became one of the standard works on early Scottish freemasonry although it has been largely superseded by later works. There is no evidence that Brewster was a Freemason at the time he wrote the book, nor any that he became one later.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cooper |first=Robert |year=2006 |title=Cracking The Freemason's Code |publisher=[[Penguin (publisher)|Penguin]] |page=157 |isbn=978-1-84604-049-8}}</ref>