Letronne

[ li-trohn ]

noun

1. a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (100 km) in diameter.

Example Sentences

Letronne found a date of 3430 B.C.; but the earlier date agrees better with the evidence derived from Egyptology.

From Project Gutenberg

Dessin� par Letronne, et grav� par Hoefel, 1814.

From Project Gutenberg

At present no sound is heard.—Letronne,

From Project Gutenberg

In a 1991 book, “Inventing the Flat Earth,” retired University of California professor Jeffrey Burton Russell explains how the myth was perpetuated in the 1800s by writers including Washington Irving and Antoinne-Jean Letronne.

From Washington Post

Letronne insisted that early Christian writers thought the Earth was flat.

From Washington Post