discoverer

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• Hearing of his cache, would-be discoverers descended, ballooning the population from 1,200 to 4,600 within a few years.

• “Sometimes I feel I’m more of a discoverer than a sculptor,” says the Netherlands-raised artist, while giving a recent tour, on the Washington Monument grounds, of artwork that was unseen by everyone else who passed by.

• The types of transformations that maintain the symplectic structure are called Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, after the discoverer of the phenomenon.

• I felt like the discoverer of a new world already fully inhabited and thriving but totally unknown to the rest of us.

• The sense of randomness is often emphasized: the discoverer—likely some hardworking editor—merely stumbled upon greatness.

• Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of the new world, died at Valladolid in Spain, aged about 70.

• The seventh 'Reason' against the use of tobacco is, that the devil is the discoverer and suggester of smoking.

• William Barlowe, died; celebrated as the discoverer of the nature and properties of the loadstone.

• William Harvey, an English physician, died; celebrated as the discoverer of the circulation of the blood.

• The Baron de Wentzel was the most famous oculist of the day, and the discoverer of operations for cataract.