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(häns m l´ch r) (KEY) , c.1400–1467, outstanding German sculptor and painter of the Swabian school of Ulm. Early in life he traveled to the Nether...
(s lvr t´ , Ger. z lvr t´ä) (KEY) , mountain group of the Alps, in E Switzerland and SW Austria. Its highest peak, Piz Linard (11,185 ft/3,409 m) i...
(ôd lôN´ r dôN´) (KEY) , 1840–1916, French painter and lithographer. He studied in Paris under Gérôme. Later his friend Fantin-Latour taught ...
name for the larva of various species of moths, indigenous to Asia and Africa but now domesticated and raised for silk production throughout most of t...
1846–1919, American astronomer and physicist, b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.S., 1865); brother of W. H. Pickering. He was professor of physics (1868â€...
(p zän l´l ) (KEY) , c.1395–1455?, Italian medalist, painter, and draftsman of the early Renaissance. He was also called Vittore Pisano, but his r...