Which preposition to use with discoverers

of Occurrences 147%

BALBOA DISCOVERS THE PACIFIC A.D. 1513 MANUEL JOSÉ QUINTANA Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, the Spanish soldier and discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, was born in 1475, and died near Darien, the scene of his principal achievement, probably in 1517.

in Occurrences 9%

I doubt if new discoverers in science meet with serious opposition when men themselves are not attacked, and they are made to appeal to calm intelligence, and war is not made on those Scripture texts which seem to controvert them.

on Occurrences 3%

There is "the man of our town," who was unwise enough to destroy the organs of sight by jumping into a bramble-bush, and who came triumphantly out of the experiment, and "scratched them in again," by boldly jumping into another bush,the oldest discoverer on record of the doctrine that similia similibus curantur.

for Occurrences 3%

Quite recently one of Correggio's most beautiful works was discovered under the canvas of a worthless picture acquired at a public auction in Rome for a few dimes, at the sale by a princely family of discarded pictures, and resold by its fortunate discoverer for fifteen thousand dollars, although the original proprietor instituted a suit against him for its recovery, but without success.

with Occurrences 2%

The people here called Portuguese, are principally persons bred from a mixture of the first Portuguese discoverers with the natives, and now become, in their complexion and woolly quality of their hair, perfect negroes, retaining however a smattering of the Portuguese language.

of Occurrences 1%

" Doubtless, this was one of the greatest Discoverers of Hidden Mysteries, and one of the most Pryers into Spiritual Secrets that ever the world was owner of.

before Occurrences 1%

A larger quantity of this substance in the tube would produce on me, as I now hold it, incurable burns, just as it did on its discoverer before his death.

by Occurrences 1%

I must assume the presence of the talent, and then assign the conditions under which that talent can alone achieve real success, no man is made a discoverer by learning the principles of scientific Method; but only by those principles can discoveries be made; and if he has consciously mastered them, he will find them directing his researches and saving him from an immensity of fruitless labour.

than Occurrences 1%

Schleiermacher is attractive rather than impressive; he is less a discoverer than a critic and systematizer.

as Occurrences 1%

Of which there are many more in the thymus of embryonic and early postnatal life, known after their discoverer as Hassal's Corpuscles.

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