Mare Tranquillitatis
See also: Mare tranquillitatis
Translingual
Etymology
Mare + Latin tranquillitātis. From Latin Mare Tranquilitatis (spelled with one "L"). From Latin mare+tranquillitas (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
Mare Tranquillitatis
- (planetology) The Sea of Tranquility: A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; a lunar mare region.
Translations
Sea of Tranquility — see Sea of Tranquility
References
- The Face of the Moon, 7. Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (1598-1671)., Linda Hall Library
Further reading
Mare Tranquillitatis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Proper noun
Mare Tranquillitatis
- Alternative form of Mare tranquillitatis