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(ändr ´ä p zä´n ) (KEY) , c.1290–c.1348, Italian sculptor, also called Andrea da Pontedera. His most important work, the first bronze doors of ...
( nyä´tsy s l ´n ) (KEY) , 1900–1978, Italian novelist and journalist, whose original name was Secondo Tranquilli. A Socialist and for a time a ...
(h p´s kl z) (KEY) , astronomer of ancient Greece. Some authorities place Hypsicles in the 2d cent. B.C. and some in the 2d cent. A.D. The 14th and 1...
(güstäv´ môr ´) (KEY) , 1826–98, French painter. He was known for his pictures of the weird and mystical. The recipient of many honors, he refu...
fine, horny, translucent, yellowish fiber produced by the silkworm in making its cocoon and covered with sericin, a protein. Many varieties of silk-sp...
(s ´n , b r´y ström) (KEY) , 1916–2004, Swedish biochemist, grad. Karolinska Institute (Ph.D., M.D., 1944). With his former pupil B. I. Samuelsso...