Timocharis

[ ti-mok-er-is ]

noun

1. a crater in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 25 miles (40 km) in diameter.

Example Sentences

An occultation of the Pleiades by the moon was observed by Timocharis at Alexandria on January 29, 282 B.C.

From Project Gutenberg

Ptolemy, who compares with his own the observations of Timocharis and Hipparchus, one of whom flourished 260 years, the other 460 years before him, thought that there was this motion of the eighth sph�re, and of the whole firmament; and proved by help of numerous phenomena that it took place over the poles of the Zodiack, and, supposing its motion to be so far �quable, that the non-planetary stars in the space of 100 years completed just one degree beneath the Primum Mobile.

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At length Copernicus, by means of the observations of Timocharis, Aristarchus of Samos, Hipparchus, Menelaus, Ptolemy, Mahometes Aractensis, Alphonsus, and of his own, detected the anomalies of the motion of the Earth's axis: though I doubt not that other anomalies also will come to light some ages hence.

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Alas! no one of the ferocious bigots knew that with these Eratosthenes had in the old times measured the size of the earth, and Timocharis had determined the motions of the planet Venus.

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The little double crater, Beer, between Archimedes and Timocharis, is very bright.

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