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| | Lecture 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Juno (sister and wife of the Roman god Jupiter) was found in 1804 by Karl Ludwig Harding (1765-1834), and Olbers spotted his second asteroid, Vesta (Roman goddess of the hearth), in 1807. |
 | | The asteroids' small size made them challenging objects to find, and the next one, Astraea (Greek goddess of justice), was not discovered until 1845, by Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793-1866). |
 | | Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) identified the mammalian ovum; like many of his predecessors, he regarded sperm cells as parasites; named them "spermatozoa" |
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