Biography Category
(kr s´tôf sh n´ r) (KEY) , 1579?–1650, German astronomer and mathematician, a Jesuit priest. He taught at Ingolstadt, Rome, and elsewhere and bec...
instrument for making numerical computations and readings, the results of which may be read easily and quickly after performing simple mechanical mani...
(s n ´ä) (KEY) , town (1990 pop. 15,817), S central Romania, in Walachia, in the Transylvanian Alps. It is a health and winter sports resort and has...
1808–95, American Baptist clergyman and poet, b. Boston. He is remembered as the author of the national hymn “America,” written while he was a s...
(kô´z m r s-s l´l ) (KEY) , 1439–1507, Florentine painter. He was one of the artists summoned to Rome by Sixtus IV to assist in decorating the S...
(p r n´) (KEY) , 1867–1951, American astronomer, b. Steubenville, Ohio. He was on the staff of Lick Observatory (1893–1909) and was (1909–36) d...