Timocharis
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Timocharis is surrounded by a pale irregular nimbus and faint rays, most prominently developed on the W. side of the formation.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn
The names of Aristarchus, Eratosthenes, Aristyllus, Timocharis, and Autolycus, are familiarly known in association with the advancement of the astronomy of this period.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
Lambert is seventeen miles in diameter, and Euler nineteen, while Timocharis is twenty-three miles broad and 7,000 feet deep below its walls, which rise only 3,000 feet above the surface of the Mare.
From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Serviss, Garrett Putman
Alas! no one of the ferocious bigots knew that with these Eratosthenes had in the old times measured the size of the earth, and Timocharis had determined the motions of the planet Venus.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
Timocharis and the neighbourhood, especially the peculiar shape of the terminator on the E. of the formation, is well worth examination at sunrise.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn
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