Eudoxus

American  

[yoo-dok-suhs] / yuˈdɒk səs /

noun

1. a crater in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 40 miles (64 km) in diameter.

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Example Sentences

The system of spheres of Eudoxus did not satisfy him, so he devised a method of representing the paths of the heavenly bodies by perfectly uniform motion in circles.

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However, Eudoxus was a man of great determination, and on the death of Ptolemy VII. in the reign of his successor, he set out on another expedition to India.

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Eudoxus reached apparently Senegambia, and then another mutiny broke out, and he had to return to Barbary.

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However, there is another statement of his which I think points to Eudoxus having gone far South, namely, that the reason of his turning back was an inability to get provisions, for this catastrophe is not likely to have overtaken so brave a man as he was until he reached the great mangrove swamps of the Niger.

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From scattered observations it is certain the commerce of the Carthaginians with the Barbary Coast and the Bight of Benin was long carried on; but it does not seem to have been carried on along the coast of the Bight of Biafra; and the voyage in 170 B.C. may be cited in support of this, showing that the voyage as far south as Eudoxus went was then considered as marvellous and new.

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