Maurolycus

[mawr-uh-lahy-kuh s]

noun

a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 70 miles (110 km) in diameter.

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Porta and Maurolycus had made important discoveries, but left the great problem untouched.
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2
Henry Hallam
Maurolycus of Messina had no superior among contemporary geometers.
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1
Henry Hallam