northern harrier, (Circus cyaneus), common name for the best-known harrier

Polyporales: The edible hen of the woods (P. frondosus), which grows on old trees and stumps, produces a cluster of grayish mushrooms with two or three caps on a stalk; the undersides of the caps are porous. The sulfur mushroom, P. (Laetiporus) sulphureus, a common shelflike fungus that…

Celtic literature: The Middle Ages: …poems associated with the name Llywarch Hen are the verse remains of at least two sagas composed toward the middle of the 9th century by unknown poets of Powys, whose basic material was the traditions associated with the historical Llywarch and Heledd, sister to Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn. In these, it…

hen-and-chicks, any of a number of succulent plants of the genera Echeveria and Sempervivum, in the family Crassulaceae; members of the latter genus are commonly known as houseleeks. Many of these plants are popularly called hen-and-chicks because of the way new plantlets develop in a cluster

hen-and-chicks, any of a number of succulent plants of the genera Echeveria and Sempervivum, in the family Crassulaceae; members of the latter genus are commonly known as houseleeks. Many of these plants are popularly called hen-and-chicks because of the way new plantlets develop in a cluster

Henan, sheng (province) of north-central China. The province stretches some 300 miles (480 km) from north to south and 350 miles (560 km) east to west at its widest point. It is bounded to the north by the provinces of Shanxi and Hebei, to the east by Shandong and Anhui, to the west by Shaanxi, and

School of Nisibis: …undermined by the administration of Ḥenānā (c. 570–c. 609), who preferred Origen (a Christian theologian who flourished in the early 3rd century) to Theodore of Mopsuestia, the recognized Nestorian authority. Ḥenānā’s views led to a revolt by students, and the director required royal support to maintain his position.

Luoyang, city, northwestern Henan sheng (province), east-central China. It was important in history as the capital of nine ruling dynasties and as a Buddhist centre. The contemporary city is divided into an east town and a west town. Luoyi (present-day Luoyang) was founded in the mid-11th century

Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand: …Marquise de Lambert, Voltaire, and Jean-François Hénault, president of the Parlement of Paris, with whom she lived on intimate if not always friendly terms until his death in 1770. When she set up her own salon, she attracted scientists, writers, wits, and all who were of any consequence in the…

henbane, (Hyoscyamus niger), highly toxic plant of the nightshade family (Solanaceae), native to Eurasia and naturalized throughout much of the world. The dried leaves of henbane, and sometimes those of Egyptian henbane (H. muticus) and white henbane (H. albus), yield three medicinal

Henbury Craters, group of 13 meteorite craters in a desert area 8 mi (13 km) west-southwest of Henbury, Northern Territory, central Australia, within the Henbury Meteorite Conservation Park. The craters, recognized in 1931, lie in an area of 0.5 sq mi (1.25 sq km) and are distributed in a

Philip Showalter Hench was an American physician who with Edward C. Kendall in 1948 successfully applied an adrenal hormone (later known as cortisone) in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. With Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein of Switzerland, Hench received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or

Armenian Genocide: Armenians in Eastern Anatolia: …formed two revolutionary parties called Hënchak (“Bell”) and Dashnaktsutyun (“Federation”) in 1887 and 1890. Neither one gained wide support among Armenians in Eastern Anatolia, who largely remained loyal and hoped instead that sympathizers in Christian Europe would pressure the Ottoman Empire to implement new reforms and protections for Armenians. The…

Michael Henchard, fictional character, a well-to-do grain merchant with a guilty secret in his past who is the protagonist of the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) by Thomas

Karl Ludwig Hencke was an amateur astronomer who found the fifth and sixth minor planets to be discovered. Professional astronomers had largely given up the search for asteroids in 1816, when four were known. Hencke, a post office employee who eventually became postmaster, began his systematic

woolly monkey: The yellow-tailed, or Hendee’s, woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda) is very different from Lagothrix and is not closely related, hence its classification as a separate genus. This species has silky mahogany-coloured fur, a whitish nose, and a yellow stripe on the underside of the tail. It is…

Henderson, city, seat of Henderson county, northwestern Kentucky, U.S., on a bluff overlooking the Ohio River, 7 miles (11 km) south of Evansville, Indiana. The town site, around Red Banks (settled 1784), was laid out in 1797 by the Transylvania Land Company and named for its promoter, Richard

Henderson, city, Clark county, southeastern Nevada, U.S., midway between Las Vegas and Boulder City. It was established in 1942 in the desert below Clark Mountain to provide housing for the employees of a government-constructed magnesium plant and was named for U.S. Senator Charles Belknap

Henderson, city, seat (1881) of Vance county, northern North Carolina, U.S., about 45 miles (70 km) northeast of Raleigh. The area was settled by Germans, Scots, and Scotch-Irish in the early 1700s, and the town was laid out in 1840 and named for Chief Justice Leonard Henderson of the state’s

photoengraving: Other methods: The Henderson process, sometimes referred to as “direct transfer,” or “inverse halftone,” gravure, has won some acceptance in the printing of packaging materials. Retouched continuous-tone positives are used in preparation of halftone negatives and, by a contact-printing operation, halftone positives. These positives show dot size variations…

Henderson the Rain King, seriocomic novel by Saul Bellow, published in 1959. The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. The story concerns Henderson’s search for meaning. A larger-than-life 55-year-old who has accumulated money, position, and a large family,

Alexander Henderson was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman primarily responsible for the preservation of the presbyterian form of church government in Scotland. He was influential in the defeat of the English king Charles I during the Civil War of 1642–51. In 1612 Henderson was nearly prevented from

Arthur Henderson was one of the chief organizers of the British Labour Party. He was Britain’s secretary of state for foreign affairs from June 1929 to August 1931 and won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1934. An iron molder at Robert Stephenson’s locomotive works and foundry in Newcastle upon Tyne,

Flying Spaghetti Monster: …Monster began in 2005, when Bobby Henderson, a recent physics graduate of Oregon State University, sent a letter to the Kansas Board of Education, which was debating the inclusion of intelligent design theories in high school classes on evolution. The letter, which parodied the reasoning used to argue a scientific…

basketball: U.S. high school and college basketball: …the zone defense, developed by Cam Henderson of Marshall University in West Virginia, later became an integral part of the game.

Henderson: Senator Charles Belknap Henderson (1873–1954). Inactivated at the close of World War II when the plant was closed, the project was later bought by the state, and the magnesium-producing facilities were taken over by private companies.

Jocko Henderson: For seven years beginning in the mid-1950s, Douglas (“Jocko”) Henderson commuted daily between Philadelphia, where he broadcast on WDAS, and New York City, where his two-hour late-evening Rocket Ship Show on WLIB was a particularly wild ride. “Hey, mommio, hey, daddio,” he announced, “this is…

Fletcher Henderson was an American musical arranger, bandleader, and pianist who was a leading pioneer in the sound, style, and instrumentation of big band jazz. Henderson was born into a middle-class family; his father was a school principal and his mother a teacher, and he studied piano as a

Fletcher Henderson was an American musical arranger, bandleader, and pianist who was a leading pioneer in the sound, style, and instrumentation of big band jazz. Henderson was born into a middle-class family; his father was a school principal and his mother a teacher, and he studied piano as a

The Brady Bunch: …sons, marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), the mother of three girls. They combine their households in a four-bedroom house in an unnamed suburb of Los Angeles. The main cast included the Brady boys, Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland); the girls, Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan…

The Brady Bunch: …sons, marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), the mother of three girls. They combine their households in a four-bedroom house in an unnamed suburb of Los Angeles. The main cast included the Brady boys, Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland); the girls, Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan…

Fletcher Henderson was an American musical arranger, bandleader, and pianist who was a leading pioneer in the sound, style, and instrumentation of big band jazz. Henderson was born into a middle-class family; his father was a school principal and his mother a teacher, and he studied piano as a

Jocko Henderson: For seven years beginning in the mid-1950s, Douglas (“Jocko”) Henderson commuted daily between Philadelphia, where he broadcast on WDAS, and New York City, where his two-hour late-evening Rocket Ship Show on WLIB was a particularly wild ride. “Hey, mommio, hey, daddio,” he announced, “this is…

Lawrence Joseph Henderson was a U.S. biochemist, who discovered the chemical means by which acid–base equilibria are maintained in nature. Henderson spent most of his career at Harvard Medical School (1904–42), where he was professor of biological chemistry (1919–34) and chemistry (1934–42). Soon

Oceanic literature: Early writings: …Davis, a Cook Islander, and Lydia Henderson, his New Zealand-born wife. Like their earlier autobiography, Doctor to the Islands (1954), it was written in English. The novel, which deals with the cultural conflict between Pacific and Western values in an imaginary land called Fenua Lei, has more in common with…

Mary Henderson Eastman was a 19th-century American writer whose work on Native Americans, though coloured by her time and circumstance, was drawn from personal experience of her subjects. In 1835 Mary Henderson, the granddaughter of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, a hero of the naval war with France,

Nashville: History: …behind the area’s settlement was Richard Henderson, a North Carolina jurist who in 1775 acquired most of middle Tennessee and Kentucky in the Transylvania Purchase from the Cherokee. In 1779 he sent a party under James Robertson to investigate the Cumberland Valley. They settled at French Lick and were joined…

Richard Henderson is a Scottish biophysicist and molecular biologist who was the first to successfully produce a three-dimensional image of a biological molecule at atomic resolution using a technique known as cryo-electron microscopy. Henderson’s refinement of imaging methods for cryo-electron

Rickey Henderson was a professional baseball player who in 1991 set a record for the most stolen bases in major league baseball and in 2001 set a record for the most career runs scored. One of the game’s greatest leadoff hitters, Henderson won the World Series with the Oakland Athletics (1989) and

Rickey Henderson was a professional baseball player who in 1991 set a record for the most stolen bases in major league baseball and in 2001 set a record for the most career runs scored. One of the game’s greatest leadoff hitters, Henderson won the World Series with the Oakland Athletics (1989) and

Robert Henryson was a Scottish poet, the finest of early fabulists in Britain. He is described on some early title pages as the schoolmaster of Dunfermline—probably at the Benedictine abbey school—and he appears among the dead poets in William Dunbar’s Lament for the Makaris, which was printed

Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson was a British ambassador in Berlin (1937–39) who was closely associated with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany. Some observers believed that he was more influential in implementing the appeasement policy than Chamberlain

Sylvia Ashton-Warner was a New Zealand educator and writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In the field of education, she became known for her innovative work in adapting traditional British teaching methods to the special needs of Maori children. Her aim was peace and communication between two

Thomas Henderson was a Scottish astronomer who, as royal astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope (1831–33), made measurements that later allowed him to determine the parallax of a star (Alpha Centauri). He announced his findings in 1839, a few months after both German astronomer Friedrich Bessel and

Lawrence Joseph Henderson: …systems, now known as the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, is of fundamental importance to biochemistry.

Royal Air Force Museum: …World War I at the Hendon Aerodrome in northwestern London.

This Is Spinal Tap: Cast: Assorted Referencesdiscussed in biographyrole of

Barkley L. Hendricks was an American portrait artist who depicted the lives of ordinary Black men and women in paintings in the style and on the scale of those of the Old Masters, whose work he encountered in Europe as a young man. His bold, experimental works were inspired by popular music,

Barkley L. Hendricks was an American portrait artist who depicted the lives of ordinary Black men and women in paintings in the style and on the scale of those of the Old Masters, whose work he encountered in Europe as a young man. His bold, experimental works were inspired by popular music,

Mad Men: …head secretary, Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks). While the show generated many of its story lines from the lively dynamics of the office, it also focused intently on the domestic sphere and specifically on Don’s wife, Betty (January Jones), who superficially embodied the ideal of the mid-century suburban housewife.

Thomas A. Hendricks was a long-time Democratic Party politician and the 21st vice president of the United States (March 4–November 25, 1885) in the administration of President Grover Cleveland. Hendricks was the son of John Hendricks, a farmer and a deputy surveyor of lands, and Jane Thomson. His

Thomas A. Hendricks was a long-time Democratic Party politician and the 21st vice president of the United States (March 4–November 25, 1885) in the administration of President Grover Cleveland. Hendricks was the son of John Hendricks, a farmer and a deputy surveyor of lands, and Jane Thomson. His

Sue: …American marine archaeologist and paleontologist Susan Hendrickson, the scientist for whom the specimen is named, as she searched the property with American paleontologist Peter Larson.

Orange River: Physiography: From the Gariep (formerly Hendrik Verwoerd) Dam the Orange swings to the northwest to its confluence with the Vaal River. The Vaal, which rises in Eastern Transvaal province, flows west through the major population and industrial core of South Africa before turning south and joining the Orange…

Orange River: Physiography: …at the head of the Gariep (formerly Hendrik Verwoerd) Reservoir.

Puerto Rico: Early settlement: In 1625 the Dutchman Bowdoin Hendrik captured and burned the town but failed to subdue El Morro, where the governor had taken refuge.

Conway: …University of Central Arkansas (1907), Hendrix College (which moved there from Altus in 1890), and Central Baptist College (1952). Arkansas Children’s Colony (1959), for the mentally handicapped, is also in the city.

Jimi Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and composer who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British avant-garde rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own image. Though his active career as a featured artist lasted a mere four years,

Jimi Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and composer who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British avant-garde rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own image. Though his active career as a featured artist lasted a mere four years,

Jimi Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and composer who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British avant-garde rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own image. Though his active career as a featured artist lasted a mere four years,

Stephen Hendry is a Scottish snooker player who won a record seven world titles and dominated the game throughout the 1990s. In 1984, at age 15, Hendry became the youngest Scottish amateur snooker champion in history. He turned professional the following year, and when he won the Grand Prix in

Hindu Kush, great mountain system of Central Asia. Broadly defined, it is some 500 miles (800 km) long and as much as 150 miles (240 km) wide. The Hindu Kush is one of the great watersheds of Central Asia, forming part of the vast Alpine zone that stretches across Eurasia from east to west. It runs

Philip Hendy was a British art historian and curator. Hendy graduated with a degree in modern history from the University of Oxford (Westminster School and Christ Church) in 1923. In the same year, he joined the Wallace Collection as an assistant to the curator. Impressed by his work at the Wallace

Philip Hendy was a British art historian and curator. Hendy graduated with a degree in modern history from the University of Oxford (Westminster School and Christ Church) in 1923. In the same year, he joined the Wallace Collection as an assistant to the curator. Impressed by his work at the Wallace

history of the Low Countries: Unification after Alba: …in the south among Artois, Hainaut, and the town of Douay, based on the Pacification of Ghent but retaining the Roman Catholic religion, loyalty to the king, and the privileges of the estates. As a reaction to the accommodation of Artois and Hainaut, the Union of Utrecht was declared, at…

henequen, (Agave fourcroydes), fibre plant of the asparagus family (Asparagaceae), native to Mexico and Guatemala. Henequen fibre is an important leaf fibre and has been used since pre-Columbian times. The plant was introduced to Cuba in the 19th century and became the country’s chief fibre crop by

P’ing-tung: …126-square-mile (326-square-km) area in the Heng-ch’un (Hengchun) Peninsula was designated in 1982 as Taiwan’s first national park (K’enting National Park) and includes the largest forest vacation area in southern Taiwan. The Haucha model aboriginal village is at Wu-t’ai (Wutai). The San-ti-men (Sandimen) Bridge on the Wu-lo River is in the…

Hengyang, city, south-central Hunan sheng (province), southeastern China. It is situated on the west bank of the Xiang River, just south of the confluence of the Xiang with two of its main tributaries, the Lei and the Zheng rivers, and some 110 miles (180 km) south of Changsha, the provincial

Tumbuka, a people who live on the lightly wooded plateau between the northwestern shore of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malaŵi) and the Luangwa River valley of eastern Zambia. They speak a Bantu language closely related to those of their immediate neighbours, the lakeside Tonga, the Chewa, and the Senga. The

Hengelo, gemeente (municipality), eastern Netherlands, on the Twente Canal. Formerly a small agricultural village, it shared in the rapid industrial growth of the Twente district. It has textile, metallurgical, and electrical engineering industries; salt production is also important. Hengelo is a

Hengist and Horsa, (respectively d. c. 488; d. 455?), brothers and legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain who went there, according to the English historian and theologian Bede, to fight for the British king Vortigern against the Picts between ad 446 and 454. The brothers

Fujian: Population composition: Lastly, the Henghua dialect is spoken in the Henghua district between Fuzhou and Xiamen. There are also literally hundreds of subdialects, making the province one of the most linguistically fragmented in China.

Hengist and Horsa, (respectively d. c. 488; d. 455?), brothers and legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain who went there, according to the English historian and theologian Bede, to fight for the British king Vortigern against the Picts between ad 446 and 454. The brothers

Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg was a German theologian who defended Lutheran orthodoxy against the rationalism pervading the Protestant churches and particularly the theological faculties of his day. Hengstenberg studied at Bonn and at Berlin, where he was professor of theology most of his life. In

Hengyang, city, south-central Hunan sheng (province), southeastern China. It is situated on the west bank of the Xiang River, just south of the confluence of the Xiang with two of its main tributaries, the Lei and the Zheng rivers, and some 110 miles (180 km) south of Changsha, the provincial

Hengyang, city, south-central Hunan sheng (province), southeastern China. It is situated on the west bank of the Xiang River, just south of the confluence of the Xiang with two of its main tributaries, the Lei and the Zheng rivers, and some 110 miles (180 km) south of Changsha, the provincial

Sonja Henie was a Norwegian-born American world champion figure skater and Olympic gold medalist who went on to achieve success as a professional ice-skater and as a motion-picture actress. (Read Scott Hamilton’s Britannica entry on figure skating.) Henie began skating when she was six years old.

Justine Henin is a Belgian tennis player, whose strong serve and powerful one-handed backhand elevated her to the top of the women’s game in the first decade of the 21st century. Henin set high standards as a junior competitor, taking the Junior Orange Bowl international tennis championship crown

Henin-Beaumont, town, Pas-de-Calais département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France, lying between Lens and Douai. Chartered in 1229, it was made a county in 1579 by Philip II of Spain and was annexed by France in 1678. The town, in a former coal-mining district, has seen the more recent

Justine Henin is a Belgian tennis player, whose strong serve and powerful one-handed backhand elevated her to the top of the women’s game in the first decade of the 21st century. Henin set high standards as a junior competitor, taking the Junior Orange Bowl international tennis championship crown

butterflyfish: …its dorsal fin; and the pennant coralfish, or feather-fin bull fish (Heniochus acuminatus), a black-and-white striped Indo-Pacific species with a very long spine in its dorsal fin.

Reinhard Heydrich was a Nazi German official who was Heinrich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel (“Protective Echelon”), the paramilitary corps commonly known as the SS. He played a key role in organizing the Holocaust during the opening years of World War II. Heydrich’s father, who

Joel Lehtonen: …same cultural pessimism appears in Henkien taistelu (1933; “The Struggle of Spirits”) and in his poems, Hyvästijättö Lintukodolle (1934; “Farewell to the Bird’s Nest”), which were written shortly before his suicide. Lehtonen’s influence on Finnish literature has increased over the years.

foundations of mathematics: One distinguished model or many models: …provided sufficiently many variables (Henkin constants) are adjoined to its internal language. Put in more technical language, this makes the possible worlds of mathematics stalks of a sheaf. However, the question still remains as to where this sheaf lives if not in a distinguished world of mathematics or—perhaps better…

loop of Henle, long U-shaped portion of the tubule that conducts urine within each nephron of the kidney of reptiles, birds, and mammals. The principal function of the loop of Henle is in the recovery of water and sodium chloride from urine. This function allows production of urine that is far more

Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle was a German pathologist, one of history’s outstanding anatomists, whose influence on the development of histology is comparable to the effect on gross anatomy of the work of the Renaissance master Andreas Vesalius. While a student of the German physiologist Johannes

Konrad Henlein was a Sudeten-German politician who agitated for German annexation of the Czechoslovak Sudeten area and in World War II held administrative posts in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Henlein, educated at a commercial academy, became a bank clerk and later a gymnastics instructor. He was

watch: Mechanical watches: …early examples being made by Peter Henlein, a locksmith in Nürnberg, Ger. The escapement used in the early watches was the same as that used in the early clocks, the verge. Early watches were made notably in Germany and at Blois in France, among other countries, and were generally carried…

Alice Springs: …also attend such celebrations as Henley-On-Todd, a “boat race” on the dry riverbed in which the boats are carried by runners. Alice Springs is a regional headquarters for the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the School of the Air (public education by radio and, later, a broadband satellite network for…

Henley Royal Regatta, annual four-day series of rowing races held the first week in July on the River Thames, at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. The regatta was established in 1839; and in 1851 Prince Albert became its patron and gave the event its “royal” prefix. The regulation distance

Beth Henley is an American playwright of regional dramas set in provincial Southern towns, the best known of which, Crimes of the Heart (1982; filmed 1986), was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1981. Henley, a graduate of Southern Methodist University, University Park, Texas (B.F.A., 1974), turned from

Christopher Cross: Souther, Don Henley, and Nicolette Larsen. The album was a huge success. Backed by such hits as “Ride Like the Wind” and “Sailing,” it stayed on the charts for more than two years, eventually achieving platinum status. Cross also made Grammy history with the album in…

Beth Henley is an American playwright of regional dramas set in provincial Southern towns, the best known of which, Crimes of the Heart (1982; filmed 1986), was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1981. Henley, a graduate of Southern Methodist University, University Park, Texas (B.F.A., 1974), turned from

William Ernest Henley was a British poet, critic, and editor who in his journals introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890s. Son of a Gloucester bookseller and a pupil of the poet T.E. Brown, Henley contracted a tubercular disease that later necessitated the

Henley-on-Thames, town (parish), South Oxfordshire district, administrative and historic county of Oxfordshire, southeast-central England. It lies on the left bank of the River Thames at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, where the river is crossed by a fine stone bridge (1786). The old town

Enna, city, capital of Enna provincia (province), central Sicily, Italy, on a plateau dominating the valley of the Dittaino, northeast of Caltanissetta. A city of the Siculi, an ancient Sicilian tribe, and a centre of the pre-Hellenic cult of Demeter and Kore (Persephone), it originated as Henna

henna tree, (Lawsonia inermis), tropical shrub or small tree of the loosestrife family (Lythraceae), native to northern Africa, Asia, and Australia. The leaves are the source of a reddish-brown dye, known as henna, which is commonly used for temporary body art and to dye fabrics. The plant bears

Otto Henne am Rhyn was a journalist and historian whose comprehensive universal cultural history was a major contribution to the development of the German Kulturgeschichte (History of Civilization) school. After studying at the Swiss universities of Bern and Geneva, he taught German, geography, and

François Hennebique was a French engineer who devised the technique of construction with reinforced concrete. At the Paris Exposition of 1867, Hennebique saw Joseph Monier’s tubs and tanks built of concrete reinforced with wire mesh and was stimulated to seek a way to apply this new material to

George Eliot: Early years: His brother-in-law, Charles Hennell, was the author of An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity (1838), a book that precipitated Evans’s break with orthodoxy that had been long in preparation. Various books on the relation between the Bible and science had instilled in her keen mind the…