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James Lewis Kraft (December 11, 1874 – February 16, 1953) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor and the founder of Kraft Foods Inc. Kraft immigrated to the United States from Canada in 1902. He developed a patented pasteurization process for cheese, allowing it to be shipped long distances, making him the first to patent processed ...
Catherine Descartes (1637–1706) was a French poet and philosopher, and the niece of French philosopher René Descartes. A prominent figure in the French salon movement, her best known works included "Shade of Descartes" ("L'Ombre de Descartes") and Report on the Death of M. Descartes, the Philosopher.
Descartes is a heavily worn lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. To the southwest is the crater Abulfeda. It is named after the French philosopher, mathematician and physicist René Descartes. The rim of Descartes survives only in stretches, and is completely missing in the north.
In geometry, Descartes' theorem states that for every four kissing, or mutually tangent, circles, the radii of the circles satisfy a certain quadratic equation. By solving this equation, one can construct a fourth circle tangent to three given, mutually tangent circles. The theorem is named after René Descartes, who stated it in 1643.
Life. Kraft was born in Braunschweig in 1896 to Jewish parents. He spent most of his childhood in Hanover. In 1910 Kraft, already interested in German literature and bibliophile, discovered the work of two contemporary writers; Rudolf Borchardt and Karl Kraus. [1] In addition to Borchardt and Kraus, Kraft was an admirer of Stefan George, Goethe ...
Alma mater. Charles University, Prague. Scientific career. Fields. Paleontology. Jaroslav Kraft, CSc. (April 9, 1940 – January 10, 2007) was an internationally recognised Czech palaeontologist and a prominent specialist in Ordovician dendroid graptolites .
Herbert C. Kraft. Herbert C. Kraft in the field, c. 1960's. Herbert Clemens Kraft (1927–2000) was an archaeologist from New Jersey, specializing in prehistory. He wrote numerous books about archaeology in New Jersey, the Lenape and the Paleo-indians of New Jersey, as well as over 170 articles in his career.
Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 22. LC Class. PS3551.N73 C87 2004. Preceded by. Cube Route. Followed by. Pet Peeve. Currant Events is a 2004 fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-eighth book of the Xanth series [1] and the first book in the second Xanth trilogy.