Maurolycus

American  

[mawr-uh-lahy-kuhs] / ˌmɔr əˈlaɪ kəs /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Maurolycus, Franciscus, 5, 42, 153, 180. medicinal use of iron, 33. of loadstone, 32.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Maurolycus was a mild and somewhat contemptuous satirist, when expressing disapproval: as we should now say, he pooh-poohed his opponents; but, unless the above be an instance, he was never savage nor impetuous.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene

The invention is of Maurolycus Abbot of Messava in Sicilie, but it hath beene perfitted, and more exactly performed by a worthy Mathematician Ed.

From A Briefe Introduction to Geography by Pemble, William

A group of Lunar volcanoes; Maurolycus, Barocius, etc.

From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

Among these he places some of the most colossal formations, such as Clavius, Maurolycus, Stofler, Janssen, and Longomontanus.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn