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1550–1617, Scottish mathematician. He invented logarithms and wrote Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio (1614), containing the first logarithm...
(märch l´l mälp ´g ) (KEY) , 1628–94, Italian anatomist. A pioneer in the use of the microscope, he made many valuable observations on the stru...
(säntyä´g räm n´ kähäl´) (KEY) , 1852–1934, Spanish histologist. He was a university professor at Valencia (1881–86), at Barcelona (1886...
(h sh´ l) (KEY) , 1907–72, American Jewish philosopher and theologian, b. Warsaw, Poland. He succeeded Martin Buber as director of the Central Orga...
(y ´ly s plü´k r) (KEY) , 1801–68, German mathematician and physicist. He became professor of mathematics (1836) and of physics (1847) at the Uni...
1834–1924, English trade union leader, a carpenter by trade. A charter member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, he became in 186...