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Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich
1743–1819, German philosopher. Although educated for commerce, he early gave up business and became in 1770 a member of the council for the duchies of Berg and Jülich. A brilliant personality, he attr...
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Hough, George Washington
(h f) (KEY) , 1836–1909, American astronomer, b. Montgomery co., N.Y., grad. Union College, 1856. He discovered 627 double stars and made systematic studies of the surface of Jupiter. Many instruments...
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silicosis
(s l k ´s s) (KEY) , occupational disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of free silica (quartz) dust over a prolonged period of time. Free silica is dispersed in the air and inhaled by workers eng...
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Hocking, William Ernest
1873–1966, American idealist philosopher, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1901; Ph.D., 1904). He was professor of philosophy at Harvard from 1914 until his retirement in 1943. His writings, which e...
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Updike, Daniel Berkeley
( p´d k´´) (KEY) , 1860–1941, American printer and historian of typography, b. Providence, R.I. At the Merrymount Press, which he founded in 1893 in Boston, his stated purpose was “to do common work w...
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Rackham, Arthur
(r k´ m) (KEY) , 1867–1939, English illustrator and watercolorist. He is known for imaginative, delicately colored, and cheerful pen drawings, especially for children’s books. Among these are Peter Pa...
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Doré, Gustave
(güstäv´ dôr ´) (KEY) , 1832–83, French illustrator, engraver, painter, and sculptor. He is best known for his highly imaginative and dramatic illustrations. At first he did his own engraving on wood,...
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Kabalevsky, Dmitri
(d m ´tr kä´´b l f´sk ) (KEY) , 1904–87, Soviet composer. His large output includes the opera Colas Breugnon (1938); The Commedians suite (1940); a Requiem (1963); concertos for piano, for violin, an...
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jongleurs
(zhông-glör´) (KEY) , itinerant entertainers of the Middle Ages in France and Norman England. Their repertoire included dancing, conjuring, acrobatics, the feats of the modern juggler, singing, and st...
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jackrabbit
popular name for several hares of W North America, characterized by very long legs and ears. Jackrabbits are powerful jumpers and fast runners. In normal progress leaps are alternated with running ste...
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Muziano, Girolamo
(j r ´läm m tsyä´n ) (KEY) , c.1528–1592, Italian mannerist painter, also known as Girolamo Bressano. His large painting, The Resurrection of Lazarus (Pinacoteca, Vatican), gained him the friendship ...
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Carnap, Rudolf
(kär´näp, –n p) (KEY) , 1891–1970, German-American philosopher. He taught philosophy at the Univ. of Vienna (1926–31) and at the German Univ. in Prague (1931–35). After going to the United States he t...
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Hume, David
(hy m) (KEY) , 1711–76, Scottish philosopher and historian. Educated at Edinburgh, he lived (1734–37) in France, where he finished his first philosophical work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40). H...
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Johnstone
(j n´st n) (KEY) , town (1991 pop. 42,731), Renfrewshire, W Scotland. Industries include flax and cotton mills in addition to engineering works. Chemicals, machine tools, and shoelaces are also manufa...
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