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See also:BAKER, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1698-1774) , See also:English naturalist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 8th ofMay 1698. After serving an apprentice-See also:ship with a bookseller, he devised a See also:system of instructing the See also:deaf and dumb, by the practice of which he made a considerable See also:fortune. It brought him to the See also:notice of See also:Daniel See also:Defoe, whose youngest daughter See also:Sophia he married in 1729. A See also:year before, under the name of Henry Stonecastle, he was associated with Defoe in starting the Universal Spectator and Weekly See also:Journal. In 1740 he was elected See also:fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Society. He contributed many See also:memoirs to the Transactions of the latter society, and in 1744 received the See also:Copley See also:gold See also:medal for microscopical observations on the See also:crystallization of saline particles. He was one of the founders of the Society of Arts in 1754, and for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time acted as its secretary. He died in London on the 25th of .See also:November 1774. Among his publications were The See also:Microscope made Easy (1743), Employment for the Microscope (1753), and several volumes of See also:verse, See also:original and translated, including The Universe, a Poem intended to restrain the See also:Pride of See also:Man (1727). His name is perpetuated by the Bakerian lecture of the Royal Society, for the See also:foundation of which he See also:left by will the sum of £loo.
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