List of craters on Mercury
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Crater	Diameter ( km )	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref

Dali	176	2008	Salvador Dalí , Spanish painter	WGPSN

Damer	60	2013	Anne Seymour Damer , English sculptor	WGPSN

Darío	151	1976	Rubén Darío , Nicaraguan writer	WGPSN

David	23	2013	Jacques-Louis David , French painter	WGPSN

de Graft	68	2009	Joe de Graft , Ghanaian playwright	WGPSN

Debussy	81	2010	Claude Debussy , French composer	WGPSN

Degas	54	1979	Edgar Degas , French artist	WGPSN

Delacroix	158	1979	Eugène Delacroix , French artist	WGPSN

Derain	167	2009	André Derain , French artist	WGPSN

Derzhavin	156	1979	Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin , Russian poet	WGPSN

Despréz	47.05	1979	Josquin des Prez , Franco-Flemish composer	WGPSN

Dickens	77.31	1976	Charles Dickens , English novelist	WGPSN

Disney	113	2012	Walt Disney , American animator	WGPSN

Dominici	20	2010	Maria de Dominici , Maltese painter	WGPSN

Donelaitis	85	2013	Kristijonas Donelaitis , Lithuanian poet	WGPSN

Donne	86	1976	John Donne , English poet	WGPSN

Dostoevskij	430.06	1979	Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Russian novelist	WGPSN

Dowland	158	1979	John Dowland , English composer	WGPSN

Driscoll	30	2015	Clara Driscoll , American artist	WGPSN

Duccio	132	2013	Duccio di Buoninsegna , Italian painter	WGPSN

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An impact crater is an approximately circular depression in the surface of a planet , moon , or other solid body in the Solar System or elsewhere , formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body . In contrast to volcanic craters , which result from explosion or internal collapse , impact craters typically have raised rims and floors that are lower in elevation than the surrounding terrain . Impact craters range from small , simple , bowl-shaped depressions to large , complex , multi-ringed impact basins . Meteor Crater is a well-known example of a small impact crater on Earth . Impact craters are the dominant geographic features on many solid Solar System objects including the Moon , Mercury , Callisto , Ganymede and most small moons and asteroids . On other planets and moons that experience more active surface geological processes , such as Earth , Venus , Mars , Europa , Io and Titan , visible impact craters are less common because they become eroded , buried or transformed by tectonics over time . Where such processes have destroyed most of the original crater topography , the terms impact structure or astrobleme are more commonly used . In early literature , before the significance of impact cratering was widely recognised , the terms cryptoexplosion or cryptovolcanic structure were often used to describe what are now recognised as impact-related features on Earth . The cratering records of very old surfaces , such as Mercury , the Moon , and the southern highlands of Mars , record a period of intense early bombardment in the inner Solar System around 3.9 billion years ago . The rate of crater production on Earth has since been considerably lower , but it is appreciable nonetheless ; Earth experiences from one to three impacts large enough to produce a 20-kilometre-diameter ( 12 mi ) crater about once every million years on average . This indicates that there should be far more relatively young craters on the planet than have been discovered so far . The cratering rate in the inner solar system fluctuates as a consequence of collisions in the asteroid belt that create a family of fragments that are often sent cascading into the inner solar system .
In geometry , a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle . It can also be defined as the longest chord of the circle . Both definitions are also valid for the diameter of a sphere . In more modern usage , the length of a diameter is also called the diameter . In this sense one speaks of the diameter rather than a diameter ( which refers to the line segment itself ) , because all diameters of a circle or sphere have the same length , this being twice the radius r .
An eponym is a person , place , or thing after whom or after which something is named , or believed to be named , or the thing so named . The adjectives derived from eponym include eponymous and eponymic . For example , Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era , and the eponymous founder of the Ford Motor Company refers to Henry Ford , and Ford and Elizabethan England are both eponyms .
Dali is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 176 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2008 . Dali is named for the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí , who lived from 1904 to 1989 .
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech , Marquis of Dalí de Púbol ( /ˈdɑːli , dɑːˈliː/ , Catalan : [ səlβəˈðo ðəˈli ] , Spanish : [ salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli ] ; 11 May 1904 - 23 January 1989 ) was a Spanish surrealist artist . Born in Figueres , Catalonia , Dalí was a skilled draftsman , best known for the striking and bizarre images in his work . His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters . His best-known work , The Persistence of Memory , was completed in August 1931 , and is one of the most recognisable Surrealist paintings . Dalí 's expansive artistic repertoire included film , sculpture , and photography , at times in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media . Dalí was highly imaginative , and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior . To the dismay of those who held his work in high regard , and to the irritation of his critics , his eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork .
Damer is a crater on Mercury at latitude 36.36 N , longitude 115.81 W in the Shakespeare quadrangle . Its diameter is 60 km . It was named after the English sculptor Anne Seymour Damer in 2013 .
Anne Seymour Damer , née Conway , ( 8 November 1748 - 28 May 1828 ) was an English sculptor . Once described as a 'female genius ' by Horace Walpole , she was trained in sculpture by Giuseppe Ceracchi and John Bacon . Influenced by the Enlightenment movement , Anne was an author , traveller , theatrical producer and actress , as well as an acclaimed sculptress . She exhibited regularly at The Royal Academy from 1784 to 1818 . She was a close friend to members of Georgian high society , including Horace Walpole and the Whig politician Charles James Fox . It is believed that Damer was a lesbian and was in a relationship with the actress Elizabeth Farren .
Darío is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 151 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1976 . Dario is named for the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío , who lived from 1867 to 1916 .
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento ( January 18 , 1867 - February 6 , 1916 ) , known as Rubén Darío ( US : /dɑːˈriːoʊ/ dah-REE-oh , Spanish : [ ruˈβen daˈɾi.o ] ) , was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo ( modernism ) that flourished at the end of the 19th century . Darío has had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish literature and journalism . He has been praised as the Prince of Castilian Letters and undisputed father of the modernismo literary movement .
David is a small crater on Mercury , which has a bright ray system . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 2013 . David is named for the French painter Jacques-Louis David .
Jacques-Louis David ( French : [ ʒaklwi david ] ; 30 August 1748 - 29 December 1825 ) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style , considered to be the preeminent painter of the era . In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feeling , harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime . David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758-1794 ) , and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic . Imprisoned after Robespierre 's fall from power , he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release : that of Napoleon , The First Consul of France . At this time he developed his Empire style , notable for its use of warm Venetian colours . After Napoleon 's fall from Imperial power and the Bourbon revival , David exiled himself to Brussels , then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands , where he remained until his death . David had a large number of pupils , making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century , especially academic Salon painting .
Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System . Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 days , the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System . It is named after the Roman deity Mercury , the messenger of the gods . Like Venus , Mercury orbits the Sun within Earth 's orbit as an inferior planet , and its apparent distance from the Sun as viewed from Earth never exceeds 28° . This proximity to the Sun means the planet can only be seen near the western horizon after sunset or eastern horizon before sunrise , usually in twilight . At this time , it may appear as a bright star-like object , but is often far more difficult to observe than Venus . The planet telescopically displays the complete range of phases , similar to Venus and the Moon , as it moves in its inner orbit relative to Earth , which recurs over its synodic period of approximately 116 days . Mercury rotates in a way that is unique in the Solar System . It is tidally locked with the Sun in a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance , meaning that relative to the fixed stars , it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun . [ a ] As seen from the Sun , in a frame of reference that rotates with the orbital motion , it appears to rotate only once every two Mercurian years . An observer on Mercury would therefore see only one day every two Mercurian years . Mercury 's axis has the smallest tilt of any of the Solar System 's planets ( about ​1⁄30 degree ) .
Joseph Coleman de Graft , known as Joe de Graft ( 2 April 1924 - 1 November 1978 ) , was a prominent Ghanaian writer , playwright and dramatist , who was appointed the first director of the Ghana Drama Studio in 1962 . He produced and directed plays for radio , stage and television , as well as acting , and was also a poet and educator .
Debussy is a rayed impact crater on Mercury , which was discovered in 1969 by low resolution ground-based radar observations obtained by the Goldstone Observatory . Later in 1990-2005 it was imaged in more detail by the Arecibo Observatory . The crater was initially known as the feature A . The bright appearance of rays in the radar images indicates that the crater is geologically young , because fresh and rough surfaces of young impact craters are good scatterers of radio waves .
( Achille ) Claude Debussy [ n 1 ] ( French : [ aʃil klod dəbysi ] ; 22 August 1862 - 25 March 1918 ) was a French composer . He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer , although he vigorously rejected the term . He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries . Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement , Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France 's leading music college , the Conservatoire de Paris . He originally studied the piano , but found his vocation in innovative composition , despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire 's conservative professors . He took many years to develop his mature style , and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed , Pelléas et Mélisande . Debussy 's orchestral works include Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ( 1894 ) , Nocturnes ( 1897-1899 ) and Images ( 1905-1912 ) . His music was to a considerable extent a reaction against Wagner and the German musical tradition . He regarded the classical symphony as obsolete and sought an alternative in his symphonic sketches , La mer ( 1903-1905 ) . His piano works include two books of Préludes and two of Études . Throughout his career he wrote mélodies based on a wide variety of poetry , including his own . He was greatly influenced by the Symbolist poetic movement of the later 19th century .
Degas is a rayed crater on Mercury at latitude 37.5 N , longitude 127 W. Its diameter is 54 kilometres ( 34 mi ) . It was named after the French impressionist painter Edgar Degas in 1979 . The rays consist of light colored material blasted out during the crater 's formation . Craters older than Degas are covered by the ray material , while younger craters are seen superimposed on the rays . Degas forms a crater pair with Brontë to the north .
Edgar Degas ( UK : /ˈdeɪɡɑː/ , US : /deɪˈɡɑː , dəˈɡɑː/ ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas , French : [ ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa ] ; 19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917 ) was a French artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings of ballerinas . Degas also produced bronze sculptures , prints , and drawings . Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance ; more than half of his works depict dancers . Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism , he rejected the term , preferring to be called a realist , and did not paint outdoors as many Impressionists did . Degas was a superb draftsman , and particularly masterly in depicting movement , as can be seen in his rendition of dancers and bathing female nudes . In addition to ballet dancers and bathing women , Degas painted race horses and racing jockeys , as well as portraits . His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and for their portrayal of human isolation . At the beginning of his career , Degas wanted to be a history painter , a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classical art . In his early thirties , he changed course , and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter , he became a classical painter of modern life .
Delacroix is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 158 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979 . Delacroix is named for the French painter Eugène Delacroix , who lived from 1798 to 1863 .
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( /ˈdɛləkrwɑː , ˌdɛləˈkrwɑː/ DEL-ə-krwah , DEL-ə-KRWAH , French : [ øʒɛn dəlakʁwa ] ; 26 April 1798 - 13 August 1863 ) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school . As a painter and muralist , Delacroix 's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists , while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement . A fine lithographer , Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare , the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres , Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance , with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form . Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity , and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art , but to travel in North Africa , in search of the exotic . Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault , Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron , with whom he shared a strong identification with the forces of the sublime , of nature in often violent action . However , Delacroix was given to neither sentimentality nor bombast , and his Romanticism was that of an individualist . In the words of Baudelaire , Delacroix was passionately in love with passion , but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible . Together with Ingres , Delacroix is considered one of the last old Masters of painting , and one of the few who was ever photographed .
Derain is a crater on Mercury named after André Derain , a French artist , painter , sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse . It has uncommonly dark material within and surrounding the crater . The material is darker than the neighboring terrain such that this crater is easily identified even in a distant global image of Mercury . The dark halo may be material with a mineralogical composition different from the majority of Mercurys visible surface . Craters with similar dark material on or near their rims were seen on the floor of the Caloris basin during MESSENGERs first flyby . The larger and older crater Ellington is to the southeast of Derain .
André Derain ( /dəˈræ̃/ , French : [ ɑ̃dʁe dəʁɛ̃ ] ; 10 June 1880 - 8 September 1954 ) was a French artist , painter , sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse .
Derzhavin is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 156 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979 . Derzhavin is named for the Russian poet Gavrila Derzhavin , who lived from 1743 to 1816 .
Gavriil ( Gavrila ) Romanovich Derzhavin ( Russian : Гаврии́л ( Гаври́ла ) Рома́нович Держа́вин , IPA : [ ɡɐˈvrilə rɐˈmanəvʲɪtɕ dʲɪrˈʐavʲɪn ] ( listen ) ; 14 July 1743 - 20 July 1816 ) was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin , as well as a statesman . Although his works are traditionally considered literary classicism , his best verse is rich with antitheses and conflicting sounds in a way reminiscent of John Donne and other metaphysical poets .
Despréz is a crater on Mercury with a diameter of 47.05 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1979 . Despréz is named for the French composer Josquin des Prez , who lived from 1440 to 1521 .
Josquin des Prez ( French : [ ʒɔskɛ̃ depʁe ] ; c. 1450/1455 - 27 August 1521 ) , often referred to simply as Josquin , was a French composer of the Renaissance . His original name is sometimes given as Josquin Lebloitte and his later name is given under a wide variety of spellings in French , Italian , and Latin , including Iosquinus Pratensis and Iodocus a Prato . His motet Illibata Dei virgo nutrix includes an acrostic of his name , where he spelled it Josquin des Prez . He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School . Josquin is widely considered by music scholars to be the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music that was emerging during his lifetime . During the 16th century , Josquin gradually acquired the reputation as the greatest composer of the age , his mastery of technique and expression universally imitated and admired . Writers as diverse as Baldassare Castiglione and Martin Luther wrote about his reputation and fame , with Luther declaring that he is the master of the notes . They must do as he wills ; as for the other composers , they have to do as the notes will . Theorists such as Heinrich Glarean and Gioseffo Zarlino held his style as that best representing perfection . He was so admired that many anonymous compositions were attributed to him by copyists , probably to increase their sales . More than 370 works are attributed to him ; it was only after the advent of modern analytical scholarship that some of these attributions were challenged , and revealed as mistaken , on the basis of stylistic features and manuscript evidence . Yet in spite of Josquin 's colossal reputation , which endured until the beginning of the Baroque era and was revived in the 20th century , his biography is shadowy , and virtually nothing is known about his personality .
Dickens is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 78 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1976 . Dickens is named for the English novelist Charles Dickens , who lived from 1812 to 1870 .
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA ( /ˈdɪkɪnz/ ; 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870 ) was an English writer and social critic . He created some of the world 's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era . His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime , and by the 20th century , critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius . His novels and short stories are still widely read today . Born in Portsmouth , Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors ' prison . Despite his lack of formal education , he edited a weekly journal for 20 years , wrote 15 novels , five novellas , hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles , lectured and performed readings extensively , was an indefatigable letter writer , and campaigned vigorously for children 's rights , education , and other social reforms . Dickens 's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers . Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity , famous for his humour , satire , and keen observation of character and society . His novels , most published in monthly or weekly instalments , pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction , which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication . Cliffhanger endings in his serial publications kept readers in suspense . The installment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience 's reaction , and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback . For example , when his wife 's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities , Dickens improved the character with positive features .
Walter Elias Disney ( /ˈdɪzni/ ; December 5 , 1901 - December 15 , 1966 ) was an American entrepreneur , animator , voice actor and film producer . A pioneer of the American animation industry , he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons . As a film producer , Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual , having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations . He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award , among other honors . Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress . Born in Chicago in 1901 , Disney developed an early interest in drawing . He took art classes as a boy and got a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18 . He moved to California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio with his brother Roy . With Ub Iwerks , Walt developed the character Mickey Mouse in 1928 , his first highly popular success ; he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years . As the studio grew , Disney became more adventurous , introducing synchronized sound , full-color three-strip Technicolor , feature-length cartoons and technical developments in cameras . The results , seen in features such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) , Pinocchio , Fantasia ( both 1940 ) , Dumbo ( 1941 ) , and Bambi ( 1942 ) , furthered the development of animated film . New animated and live-action films followed after World War II , including the critically successful Cinderella ( 1950 ) and Mary Poppins ( 1964 ) , the latter of which received five Academy Awards .
Dominici is a crater on Mercury . Dominicis bright rays indicate that it is relatively young , and the young rays appear light blue in enhanced-color images . Dominici also has bright material on its floor and is surrounded by crater ejecta and material that appears orange in enhanced color . These color differences , as in nearby Titian crater , suggest that the impact crater excavated material from beneath Mercurys surface that differs in composition from the surrounding surface . Dominici lies within a much larger impact structure , the Homer basin .
Suor Maria de Dominici ( Vittoriosa , Malta 6 December 1645- Rome , Italy 18 March 1703 ) was a Maltese painter , sculptor , and a Carmelite tertiary nun . Born into a family of artists based in the city of Birgu ( Vittoriosa ) , she was the daughter of a goldsmith and appraiser for the Knights of Malta . Two of her brothers , Raimondo de Dominici and Francesco de Dominici , were painters . Raimondo 's son Bernardo would write a contemporary art history book that included references to Maria .
Kristijonas Donelaitis ( Latin : Christian Donalitius ; 1 January 1714 - 18 February 1780 ) was a Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor . He lived and worked in Lithuania Minor , a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia , that had a sizable Lithuanian-speaking minority . He wrote the first classic Lithuanian language poem , The Seasons ( Lithuanian : Metai ) , which became one of the principal works of Lithuanian poetry . The poem , a classic work of Lithuanian literature , depicts everyday life of Lithuanian peasants , their struggle with serfdom , and the annual cycle of life .
Donne is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 86 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1976 . Donne is named for the English poet John Donne , who lived from 1572 to 1631 .
John Donne ( /dʌn/ DUN ; 22 January 1572 - 31 March 1631 ) was an English scholar , poet , soldier and secretary born into a catholic family , a remnant of the Catholic Revival , who reluctantly became a cleric in the Church of England . He was Dean of St Paul 's Cathedral in London ( 1621-1631 ) . He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets . His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets , love poems , religious poems , Latin translations , epigrams , elegies , songs , satires . He is also known for his sermons . Donne 's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes , ironies and dislocations . These features , along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms , his tense syntax and his tough eloquence , were both a reaction against the smoothness [ citation needed ] of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques . His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism [ citation needed ] . Another important theme in Donne 's poetry is the idea of true religion , something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorized . He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems . He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits . Despite his great education and poetic talents , Donne lived in poverty for several years , relying heavily on wealthy friends .
Dostoevskij ( sometimes Dostoevskii ) is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 430 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979 . Dostoevskij is named for the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky , who lived from 1821 to 1881 .
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky [ a ] ( /ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski , ˌdʌs-/ ; Russian : Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский [ b ] , tr . Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy , IPA : [ ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲɪj ] ( listen ) ; 11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881 [ c ] ) , sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky , was a Russian novelist , short story writer , essayist , journalist and philosopher . Dostoevsky 's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political , social , and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia , and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes . His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ) , The Idiot ( 1869 ) , Demons ( 1872 ) , and The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ) . Dostoevsky 's body of works consists of 11 novels , three novellas , 17 short stories , and numerous other works . Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature . His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature . Born in Moscow in 1821 , Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends , and through books by Russian and foreign authors . His mother died in 1837 when he was 15 , and around the same time , he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute . After graduating , he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle , translating books to earn extra money . In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel , Poor Folk , which gained him entry into St. Petersburg 's literary circles . Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia , he was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment .
Dowland is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 158 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979 , and refers to the English composer John Dowland , who lived from 1562 to 1626 .
John Dowland [ a ] ( 1563 - buried 20 February 1626 ) was an English Renaissance composer , lutenist , and singer . He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as Come , heavy sleep , Come again , Flow my tears , I saw my Lady weepe and In darkness let me dwell , but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival , and with the 20th century 's early music revival , has been a continuing source of repertoire for lutenists and classical guitarists .
Clara Driscoll ( December 15 , 1861 - November 6 , 1944 ) of Tallmadge , Ohio , was head of the Tiffany Studios Women 's Glass Cutting Department ( the Tiffany Girls ) , in New York City . Using patterns created from the original designs , these women selected and cut the glass to be used in the famous lamps . Driscoll designed more than thirty Tiffany lamps produced by Tiffany Studios , among them the Wisteria , Dragonfly , Peony , and from all accounts her first - the Daffodil .
Duccio di Buoninsegna ( UK : /ˈduːtʃioʊ/ DOO-chee-oh , Italian : [ ˈduttʃo di ˌbwɔninˈseɲɲa ] ; c. 1255-1260 - c. 1318-1319 ) was an Italian painter active in Siena , Tuscany , in the late 13th and early 14th century . He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy . Duccio is considered one of the greatest Italian painters of the Middle Ages. , and is credited with creating the painting styles of Trecento and the Sienese school . He also contributed significantly to the Sienese Gothic style .