John Henry Pratt (4 June 1809 - 28 December 1871) was a British clergyman and mathematician who devised a theory of crustal balance which would become the basis for the isostasy principle.
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“For beauties from worth arise
Are like the grace of deities,”
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She had lain there before bivalves began
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