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Alfred Thomas Agate (born February 14, 1812, in Sparta, New York; died January 5, 1846, Washington, D.C.) was a noted American artist, painter and miniaturist. Agate lived in New York from 1831-1838. He studied with his brother, Frederick Styles Agate, a portrait and historical painter. He later went on to study with Thomas Seir Cummings. Agate was a brilliant artist, capable of drawing landscapes, portraits, and scientific illustrations. Although he was a talented and trained artist, his landscape sketches were masterful, full of minute detail. For much of his landscape drawing, in order to save time, Agate used a camera lucida, a device which projected the scene onto a piece of paper for purposes of tracing. By the late 1830s, Agate was exhibiting his work at the National Academy of Design in New York, and established himself as a skilled painter in oils. |
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Ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps (November 19, 1805-December 7, 1894) was a French diplomat and maker of the Suez Canal; he was born at Versailles. |
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Sir Joseph Banks (February 13, 1743 - June 19, 1820) was the English naturalist and botanist on Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771) and some 75 species bear Banks' name. He is credited with the introduction to the West of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa, and the genus named after him, Banksia. |
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Jeanne Baré is probably the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation. She was a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition in La Bodeuse and La Etoile in 1766-1769.
Baré joined the expedition disguised as a man, calling herself "Jean Baré". She enlisted as valet and assistant to the expedition's naturalist, Philibert Commerçon, shortly before Bougainville's ships sailed from France |
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Willem Barents (1550? -- June 30, 1597, Dutch name Barentsz) was a Dutch navigator and explorer, leader of early expeditions in far northern waters.
In 1594 he left Amsterdam with two ships to search for the Northeast passage to eastern Asia. He reached the west coast of Novaya Zemlya, and followed it northward, being finally forced to turn back when near its northern extremity. |
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