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1748–1819, Scottish mathematician, physicist, and geologist. He was educated at St. Andrews and Edinburgh and taught first mathematics and then phys...
1784–1856, English geologist. He was dean of Westminster from 1845. First to note in England the action of glacial ice on rocks, he did much to brin...
(Flavius Arrianus) (âr´ n) (KEY) , fl. 2d cent. A.D., Greek historian, philosopher, and general, b. Nicomedia in Bithynia. He was governor of Cappa...
(n ls ä´dôlf ´r k n r´d nshöld) (KEY) , 1832–1901, Swedish geologist and arctic explorer, first to navigate the Northeast Passage, b. Finland...
(k m râr´ s, Ger. r ´dôlf yä´kôp käm rä´r s) (KEY) , 1665–1721, German botanist and physician. The first to present a clear and definite...
(p l v däl´ d lä bläsh) (KEY) , French geographer, 1845–1918, the father of French human geography. He was educated at the École Normale Supé...