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

BAROCIUS.—A massive formation, about 50 miles in diameter, on the S.W. side of Maurolycus, whose border it overlaps and considerably deforms.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn

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

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

A group of Lunar volcanoes; Maurolycus, Barocius, etc.

From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir