Maurolycus

American  

[mawr-uh-lahy-kuhs] / ˌmɔr əˈlaɪ kəs /

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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Example Sentences

Leonardo also discussed the old Aristotelian problem of the rotundity of the sun’s image after passing through an angular aperture, but not so successfully as Maurolycus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

In the last named branch it was another Italian, Maurolycus, who recognized the general character of mathematics as "symbolic logic."

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

Maurolycus was a mild and somewhat contemptuous satirist, when expressing disapproval: as we should now say, he pooh-poohed his opponents; but, unless the above be an instance, he was never savage nor impetuous.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene

Maurolycus, Franciscus, 5, 42, 153, 180. medicinal use of iron, 33. of loadstone, 32.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Further, he extended the work of Maurolycus, and demonstrated the exact analogy between the eye and the camera and the arrangement by which an inverted image is produced on the retina.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various