Maurolycus
Americannoun
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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 David Eugene Smith
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 William Gilbert
CLAIRAUT.—A very peculiar formation, about 40 miles in diameter, S. of Maurolycus, affording another good example of interference and overlapping.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
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
The invention is of Maurolycus Abbot of Messava in Sicilie, but it hath beene perfitted, and more exactly performed by a worthy Mathematician Ed.
From A Briefe Introduction to Geography by William Pemble
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