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1723–92, English portrait painter, b. Devonshire. Long considered historically the most important of England’s painters, by his learned example he...
(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 ...
(rôs) (KEY) , 1800–1867, British astronomer and constructor of telescopes. He served as member of Parliament for King’s Co., Ireland (1821–34),...
or Raphael Sanzio, Ital. Raffaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio (räf´´fä l´l sän´t , sän´tsy ) (KEY) , 1483–1520, major Italian Renaissance p...
1864–1945, American astronomer, b. Meigs co., Ohio, studied at the Univ. of Cincinnati (1883–84, 1886–87). He was superintendent of instrument c...
(m där´d rôs´s ) (KEY) , 1858–1928, Italian sculptor. A painter until 1883, he turned to sculpture and worked periodically in Paris but lived m...