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His Brother Joseph: RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, according to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhadamanthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt.
The doctrine of four elements was demolished in the 18th c through the works of Joseph Black, Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Priestley who discovered the presence of oxygen in the air.
The periodic system of classification was developed by John Newlands in 1863 and established by Dmitri Mendeleyev in 1869, classifying elements by their atomic masses.
HARRISON, Peter (1716-1775), American archi-, tect, who designed Redwood Library, Touro jSynagogue, and Brick Market in Newport, R. I.; i King's Chapel in Boston; and Christ Church in I Cambridge, Mass. He was bom at York, England, [on June 14, 1716, and moved to Newport in 11740. With his brother Joseph he farmed and I traded in molasses, rum, wine, and mahogany, tin 1761 the brothers moved to New Haven, I Conn., where Peter became collector of customs (in 1768. He died there on April 30, 1775. |
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