Mare tranquillitatis
See also: Mare Tranquillitatis and mare Tranquillitatis
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Mare Tranquillitātis, mare Tranquillitātis, Mare tranquilitātis, Mare Tranquilitātis, mare Tranquilitātis
Etymology
[edit]mare + tranquillitātis. 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]Mare tranquillitātis n sg (genitive Maris tranquillitātis); third declension
- (planetology) Sea of Tranquility (a basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System)
References
[edit]- ^ The Face of the Moon, 7. Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (1598-1671)., Linda Hall Library