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Maurolycus

[ mawr-uh-lahy-kuhs ]

noun

  1. a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 70 miles (110 km) in diameter.


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Porta and Maurolycus had made important discoveries, but left the great problem untouched.

Maurolycus of Messina had no superior among contemporary geometers.

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