Mare Tranquillitatis
See also: Mare tranquillitatis
Translingual
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Etymology
[edit]Mare + Latin tranquillitātis. From Latin Mare Tranquilitātis (spelled with one "L"). From Latin mare+tranquillitās (literally “Sea of Tranquility”). 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]Mare Tranquillitatis
- (planetology) The Sea of Tranquility: a basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; a lunar mare region.
Translations
[edit]Sea of Tranquility — see Sea of Tranquility
References
[edit]- ^ The Face of the Moon, 7. Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (1598-1671)., Linda Hall Library
Further reading
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Mare Tranquillitatis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mare Tranquillitātis n sg (genitive Maris Tranquillitātis); third declension
- Alternative form of Mare tranquillitatis
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