Eudoxus

[ yoo-dok-suhs ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

The pretended circumnavigation of Africa by Eudoxus is referred to, as well as some geographical errors of Polybius.

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The theory applied also to the sun and moon, for which Eudoxus required only three spheres in each case.

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Eudoxus thought it was the good, his opinion being the weightier because of his temperateness.

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Had Zoroaster been no earlier than Darius, Eudoxus would never have advanced him to this degree of antiquity.

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Eudoxus fitted out a large vessel and two smaller ones, and set sail upon the unknown waters of the Atlantic.

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