Illustrious
61Pilgrim of the Most Illustrious Waves — Caspian Sea sturgeon, according to Ovid …
62Beeri — Illustrious, or the well man. 1) The father of Judith, one of the wives of Esau (Gen. 26:34), the same as Adah (Gen. 36:2). 2) The father of the prophet Hosea (1:1) …
63Ibzan — Illustrious, the tenth judge of Israel (Judg. 12:8 10). He ruled seven years …
64FOIX, GASTON DE — illustrious French captain, nephew of Louis XII., was from his daring exploits called the Thunderbolt of Italy; he beat the Swiss, routed the Papal troops, captured Brescia from the Venetians, and gained the battle of Ravenna against the… …
65KEPLER, JOHN — illustrious astronomer, born at Weil der Stadt, Würtemberg, born in poverty; studied at Tübingen chiefly mathematics and astronomy, became lecturer on these subjects at Grätz; joined Tycho Brahé at Prague as assistant, who obtained a pension… …
66LIVIUS, TITUS (LIVY) — illustrious Roman historian, born at Patavium (Padua); appears to have settled early in Rome and spent the most of his life there; his reputation rests on his History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Death of Drusus, it consisted …
67MEYERBEER — illustrious musical composer, born at Berlin, of Jewish birth; composer of operatic music, and for over 30 years supreme in French opera; produced Robert le Diable in 1831, the Huguenots in 1833, Le Prophète in 1844, L Étoile du Nord in 1854,… …
68MONTESQUIEU, BARON DE — illustrious French publicist, born in the Château La Brède, near Bordeaux; his greatest work, and an able, Esprit des Lois, though rated in Sartor as at best the work of a clever infant spelling letters from a hieroglyphic prophetic book, the… …
69NEWTON, SIR ISAAC — illustrious natural philosopher, born in Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1661, where he applied himself specially to the study of mathematics, invented the method of FLUXIONS (q.v.), and… …
70PASCAL, BLAISE — illustrious French thinker and writer, born at Clermont, in Auvergne; was distinguished at once as a mathematician, a physicist, and a philosopher; at 16 wrote a treatise on conic sections, which astonished Descartes; at 18 invented a… …
