Maurolycus

[ mawr-uh-lahy-kuhs ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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Franciscus Maurolycus.—The work to which the myth of the magnetic mountains is thus credited is, D. Francisci Abbatis Messanensis Opuscula Mathematica, etc.

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Leonardo also discussed the old Aristotelian problem of the rotundity of the sun’s image after passing through an angular aperture, but not so successfully as Maurolycus.

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About the same time Francesco Maurolico, or Maurolycus, the eminent mathematician of Messina, in his Theoremata de Lumine et Umbra, written in 1521, fully investigated the optical problems connected with vision and the passage of rays of light through small apertures with and without lenses, and made great advances in this direction over his predecessors.

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He refers to Maurolycus’ work with concave specula.

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