Mare tranquillitatis
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See also: Mare Tranquillitatis and mare Tranquillitatis
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Mare Tranquillitatis, mare Tranquillitatis, Mare tranquilitatis, Mare Tranquilitatis, mare Tranquilitatis
Etymology[edit]
mare + tranquillitatis. From Mare Tranquilitatis (“spelled with one-"L"”). Coined by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, by labelling a map created by Italian Jesuit optician Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and then published in 1651 in the Almagestum novum.[1]
Proper noun[edit]
- (planetology) The Sea of Tranquility (“Mare Tranquillitatis”): A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System;
References[edit]
- ^ The Face of the Moon, 7. Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (1598-1671)., Linda Hall Library