Sentence examples for so called after from inspiring English sources

The Guyana-Venezuela border largely follows the so-called Schomburgk Line, so called after the German-born British naturalist and explorer who sketched it in 1840, tracing what he presumed to be the western border claim of the old Dutch colony of Essequibo [11].

The first mention of Laozi is found in another early classic of Daoist speculation, the Zhuangzi (4th 3rd century bce), so called after the name of its author.

This line was so called after the ink used to demarcate Jordanian positions on an armistice map (the Israeli positions were marked in red).

A master of line, Muḥammadī (so called after his great father) began to paint while still young and while Tabrīz was still the capital.

The fuzzy patch in the middle of this picture is Comet Siding Spring, so called after the Australian observatory that discovered it.

Southerners saw Morgan as a gallant, romantic raider — a "Marion of the war," so called after Francis Marion, a hero of the American Revolution who pioneered guerrilla tactics.

In this family of chemicals, PFOA and PFOS (so called C8s, after the number of carbon atoms) are no longer produced in the United States.

It was so called by Albert Einstein after the 19th-century Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.

It is the earliest form of script to be cultivated later into an important related art form, zhuanshu ("seal script"), so called because long after it had been superseded as a current writing style, it continued to be used for the carving of seals.

This explains their reported softened elastic response and the formation of so called nanorippled graphene after transfer from the Cu support which deteriorates its electrical conductivity.

According to the AP, the "Tim Tebow Law" as it's so called - named after the New York Jets quarterback who was home-schooled prior to his college career at Florida -- failed to pass in the last two regular legislative sessions in 2011 and 2009.