Eudoxus

American  

[yoo-dok-suhs] / yuˈdɒk səs /

noun

1. a crater in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 40 miles (64 km) in diameter.

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Example Sentences

Eudoxus reached apparently Senegambia, and then another mutiny broke out, and he had to return to Barbary.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

Mystic: Such was the old idea of Philolaus, Tim�us, Ecphantes, Seleucus, Aristarchus of Samos, Archimedes and Eudoxus, which Copernicus has renewed in our time.

From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Stimson, Dorothy

For Eudoxus has stated that the spheres with their deferents are not more than three and twenty in number.

From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Stimson, Dorothy

This proposition was first proved, so Archimedes asserts, by Eudoxus of Cnidus, famous as an astronomer, geometer, physician, and lawgiver, born in humble circumstances about 407 B.C.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

Thus Eudoxus, who paid greater attention than others to the variations of the motions of the planets, gave more than one sphere to each of them to represent these observed changes.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.