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(rôs) (KEY) , 1800–1867, British astronomer and constructor of telescopes. He served as member of Parliament for King’s Co., Ireland (1821–34),...
(Claudius Ptolemaeus), fl. 2d cent. A.D., celebrated Greco-Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer. He made his observations in Alexandria ...
or Symeon (both: s m´ n) (KEY) , in the Bible. 1 Second son of Jacob and Leah and ancestor of the southernmost tribe of Israel. He and his tribe are...
(Georg Joachim von Lauchen) (r ´t k s, g ´ôrk y ä´kh m f n lou´kh n) (KEY) , 1514–76, German astronomer, mathematician, and first disciple of ...
1723–92, English portrait painter, b. Devonshire. Long considered historically the most important of England’s painters, by his learned example he...
(n ) (KEY) , 1833–1907, German-American sculptor, b. Münster. After studying sculpture at Munich and Berlin, she traveled widely and executed busts...