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(ou´g st v l´h lm kh´l r) (KEY) , 1839–87, German botanist. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a system of plant ...
( 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...
1545–1613, English scholar and diplomat, organizer of the Bodleian Library at Oxford Univ. He was a Greek scholar and teacher at Oxford, and in 1584...
(h f) (KEY) , 1836–1909, American astronomer, b. Montgomery co., N.Y., grad. Union College, 1856. He discovered 627 double stars and made systematic...
(b r´närt vän ôr´l ) (KEY) , or Barend van Orley (bä´r nt) (KEY) , c.1491–1542, Flemish painter. In 1515 he was settled in Brussels, where he...
(n kôlä´) (KEY) , 1594–1665, French painter, b. Les Andelys. Poussin was considered the greatest of living painters by his contemporaries. Althou...