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1825–95, English biologist and educator, grad. Charing Cross Hospital, 1845. Huxley gave up his own biological research to become an influential sci...
(both: h r´ ks) (KEY) , 1618?–1641, English astronomer. He made the first observation of the transit of Venus. His Venus in sole visa, which narrat...
1887–1975, English biologist and writer, educated at Oxford; grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley. He taught at the Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. (1912â€...
fl. 2d cent. B.C., Greek astronomer, b. Nicaea, Bithynia. He is the first systematic astronomer of whom there are records. He made his observations ch...
(h m´b lt, Ger. äl ksän´d r fr ´h r f n h m´bôlt) (KEY) , 1769–1859, German naturalist and explorer. His full name is Friedrich Wilhelm Heinr...
(h f) (KEY) , 1836–1909, American astronomer, b. Montgomery co., N.Y., grad. Union College, 1856. He discovered 627 double stars and made systematic...