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(fr ô´t ) (KEY) , 1925–, German architect. Most notable for his tensile and pneumatic structures, Otto is among the first major architects to exp...
1822–1903, American landscape architect and writer, b. Hartford, Conn. He first attained fame for accounts of his travels in the South in the early ...
(h n´r kh v l´h lm mät ´ s ôl´b rs) (KEY) , 1758–1840, German astronomer and physician. He originated (1797) the first satisfactory method for...
(ä´dr än vän ô´städ ) (KEY) , 1610–85, Dutch genre painter, b. Haarlem. Trained in the studio of Frans Hals, he was strongly influenced by hi...
(yä´k p vän st) (KEY) , the elder, 1601–71, Flemish portrait and religious painter, b. Bruges. He spent most of his life in Bruges, with the exc...
( rt) (KEY) , 1900–1992, Dutch astronomer. He confirmed (1927) Bertil Lindblad’s theory of the Milky Way galaxy’s rotation. In the 1950s he and ...