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(mär ´ zhäN äNtwän´ n kôlä´ kär tä´ märk ´ d kôNdôrs ´) (KEY) , 1743–94, French mathematician, philosopher, and political leader, ...
(säbät ´ z ´v ) (KEY) , 1626–76, Jewish mystic and pseudo-Messiah, founder of the Sabbatean sect, b. Smyrna. After a period of study of Lurianic...
( j ´n ) (KEY) , 7th cent.?, Greek physician. His only extant work is a medical history in seven books; it was translated into English, with a commen...
1827–1912, English surgeon, educated at University College, London. He brought to surgery the principle of antisepsis, an outgrowth of Pasteur’s t...
1870–1964, American jurist, b. Lincoln, Nebr. He studied (1889–90) at Harvard law school, but never received a law degree. Pound was a prominent b...
1630–77, English mathematician and theologian. His method of finding tangents prefigured the differential calculus developed by Isaac Newton. He was...