Fracastorius

[ frah-ka-stawr-ee-uhs, -stohr- ]

noun

1. a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (97 km) in diameter.

Example Sentences

What Fracastorius did for syphilis, Caius did for the sweating sickness, and Mercado for petechial typhus.

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Fracastorius may have accidentally combined two lenses; but he neither specified the form nor the quality; and in these consisted the real discovery, which we find in Baptista Porta, and which subsequently was perfected by Galileo.

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A good idea of the accomplishment of the medical teachers of the time may be judged very well from the life of Fracastorius.

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Fracastorius draws a remarkable parallel between the processes of contagion and the fermentation of wine.

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Fracastorius' thoroughly scientific spirit will be appreciated from the fact that, like Leonardo, he saw fossils in their true light and has the first reference in the history of science to the magnetic poles of the earth.

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