Biography Category
(p ´tr s p ´n s) (KEY) , Latinized from Peter Bienewitz or Bennewitz (p ´t r b ´n v ts, b n´ v ts) (KEY) , 1495–1552, German cosmographer and...
(v ´sk d g ´m , Port. väsh´k dä gä´m ) (KEY) , c.1469–1524, Portuguese navigator, the first European to journey by sea to India. His epoch...
(v s ´ly m kh ´l v ch g l vny n´) (KEY) , 1776–1831, Russian explorer and writer. Sent in 1807 to make a geographical survey of Kamchatka and th...
(h n´r kh bärt) (KEY) , 1821–65, German explorer in British service. After traveling (1845–47) through the Levant and N Africa, he entered the s...
( v´ r st) (KEY) , 1790–1866, British surveyor, b. Breconshire, Wales. He worked on the trigonometrical survey of India from 1806 to 1843. He becam...
1829–1906, American educator, b. Sutton, N.H., grad. Dartmouth, 1854. After serving as a school principal in Cleveland, Ohio, and as superintendent ...