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Magellan, Ferdinand

Magellan, Ferdinand, a chart by, 217 suppresses mutiny at S. Julian, 289 n. [Pg.384]

Alvarez the eminent French nuclear scientist Frederic Joliot (a transfer of the Dubna suggestion for naming element 102) the scientific giant Sir Isaac Newton the famous inventor Thomas Edison the famous scholar and inventor Leonardo da Vinci early explorers such as Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and the mythical Ulysses the great American statesman George Washington a Russian scientist such as Peter Kapitza or Andrei Sakharov and the native land of a member of the discovery team, Finland. [Pg.11]

Seafarers in the Middle Ages feared not only sea monsters, adverse winds and hobgoblins, but also scurvy (Fig. 7.1). On voyages lasting for months, many suffered from this deficiency disease. Antonio Pigafetta (1480-1534), the Venetian chronicler of Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), reported in March 1521 ... [Pg.589]

Magallanie clouds Two small galaxies that are members of the Local Group and are situated close to the Milky Way. They are visible from the southern hemisphere of the earth and were first recorded by Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) in 1519. [Pg.494]

In 1960, the nuclear-powered submarine Triton circumnavigated the world, tracing the voyage of explorer Ferdinand Magellan, in only sixty-eight days. Magellan s trip in the sixteenth century took nearly three years. [Pg.1768]


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