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Joshua Brown was born and educated in Manchester, England on 7 April 1805. Brown was a police superintendent and amateur scientist in Stockport and Manchester. In 1841, he briefly moved to New York to look for employment with the police service before travelling back to Manchester. In 1854, Brown wrote System of the Universe, a text based on his understanding of the principles and internal laws of the earth’s matter. He positioned his viewpoint in opposition to the Newtonian philosophy of how motion affects matter . He married Sarah Price Brown in 1833 and his family, including five sons and four daughters, emigrated to Canada in 1855. Once here, they settled in Simcoe County, Ontario. Brown was part of Lynedoch Lyceum, a debating society in Ontario. He died in 1904.