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Kovalevsky

American  
[kov-uh-lef-skee, -lev-] / ˌkɒv əˈlɛf ski, -ˈlɛv- /

noun

  1. Sonia Sofia Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, 1850–91, Russian mathematician.


Kovalevsky Scientific  
/ kŏv′ə-lĕv′skē /
  1. Russian mathematician who made important contributions to calculus. Her mathematical determination of the shape of Saturn's rings became a model for other scientists.


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Beryozkin, Evgeny Kovalevsky and Frenchman Vincent Thomas Garate had left St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 1, 2021, and had been sailing from Vanuatu to Cairns when they got into trouble.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

It was, as sketched by me under a simple microscope, plainly divided by transverse opaque partitions, which I presume represent the great cells figured by Kovalevsky.

From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

Recently it was described by M. Kovalevsky, who discovered it among the Pshavs, Shevsurs, Svanets and other Caucasian tribes.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels

Kovalevsky recently maintained that these genealogiae were the great household communities among which the land was divided, and from which the village communities developed later on.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels

See the works of Post, Dargun, Kovalevsky, Lubbock, and their numerous followers: Lippert, Mucke, etc.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

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