Regiomontanus

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Regulus

wholesale distributing center and has manu-
facturing interests including foundries and
machine shops, oil works, flour and lumber
mills, brick works, and manufactures of au-
tomobiles and carriages; p. 53,034.

Regiomontanus, the adopted name of
Johann Muller (1436-76), a German astron-
omer born at Konigsberg in Franconia. To-
gether with Bernhard Walther he published
Ephemerides ab Anno 1475-1506, which was
useful to Columbus and Vasco da Gama. He
introduced the study of algebra into Ger-
many, and advanced the science of trigonom-
etry.

Register, in music, is the compass of the
singing voice; but the term is more frequently
employed to define particular sections of the
voice, as chest, head, lower, upper, or mid-
dle register.

Registration of Births, Deaths, Mar-
riages. In the United States methods of reg-
istration varied greatly among the several
States until 1902, when, through the coop-
eration of the American Public Health As-
sociation and the Bureau of the Census, a
model form of registration law was adopted,
which has since been endorsed by the Am-
erican Medical Association and which has
been enacted and successfully carried out in
many States. The essential requirements of
this law are that there shall be standard cer-
tificates of birth and death; that every death
shall be registered, by the undertaker or
person who disposes of the body, with the
local registrar, who issues a permit for burial
or removal, without which no body can be
interred or otherwise disposed of. See VITAL
STATISTICS.

Registration of Voters, the method of
proof prescribed for ascertaining the persons
fvho are qualified to cast votes at any elec-
tion. It is a necessary part of the machinery
of elections, and is a reasonable regulation,
intended to conduce to their orderly conduct
and fairness, and to minimize the possibility
of fraud. Lists of persons entitled to vote
are made out in advance of an election for
use at the polls. Every person who is a quali-
fied elector is entitled to register upon furn-
ishing proof of his qualification and comply-
ing with such requirements as may have been
provided by statute. England was the first
country to use registration. The States of
the United States have gradually put the
system of registration into operation, for the
most part in the later decades of the nine-
teenth century.

Regnard, Jean Francois (1656-1709),

French dramatist, one of Moliere's most bril-
liant disciples in comedy, was born in Paris,
He wrote no plays until more than half-way
through his life, and his best comedy, Le
Legataire Universel, was written only a year
before his death. Other plays are Le jouew
(1696); Les Menechmes (1705).

Regnault, Alexandra Georges Henri
(1843-71), French painter, was born in Paris.
In 1866 he won the Prix de Rome at the
Salon by his picture, Thetis bringing the
Anus forged by Vulcan to Achilles. Reaching
Rome he executed there a remarkable por-
trait of Madame Duparc, and his historical
subject of Aittomedon breaking the Horses
of Achilles. Among his other pictures are the
powerful equestrian portrait of General Prim,
now in the Louvre, his Judith, Salome (Met-
ropolitan Museum of Art), and The Execu-
tion -without Judgment under the Moorish
Kings of Granada.

Regnault, Henri Victor (1810-78),
French chemist, was born at Aix-la-Chapelle.
His main researches were not so much in or-
ganic chemistry, in which, however, he did
good work in establishing the theory of sub-
stitution, as in the determination of physico-
chemical constants, many of which still re-
main as the standard.

Regnier, Mathurin (1573-1613), French
satirical poet, was born at Chartres. His
works consist of satires, in imitation of Hor-
ace, Juvenal, and Martial, and of elegies and
odes, all remarkable for their facility of writ-
ing.

Regrating. In England an act was passed
against regrators, forestallers, and ingrossers
in 1552. A regrator was one who bought vic-
tuals in a market and sold them again within
four miles of the same place.

Regulators, The. The name applied to
those engaging in a series of insurrections
against royal authority (1765-71) in the mid-
dle counties of North Carolina. The principal
grievances were excessive taxes, dishonest
sheriffs, and extortionate court fees. Nine of
the Regulators were killed and a large num-
ber wounded. Seven were executed and the
insurrection was totally crushed.

Regulus, Marcus Atilius, was consul first
in 267 B.C., when he conquered the Sallentini
and took Brundusium; and again in 256 B.C.,
during the first Carthaginian War, when with
the other consul, Manlius Vulso, he invaded
Africa, defeating on the way the fleet of
Hamilcar and Hanno off Ecnomus in Sicily.
His story has inspired Horace with one of
his finest passages which is found in the Qdei