Mare tranquillitatis
See also: Mare Tranquillitatis and mare Tranquillitatis
Latin
Alternative forms
- Mare Tranquillitatis, mare Tranquillitatis, Mare tranquilitatis, Mare Tranquilitatis, mare Tranquilitatis
Etymology
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
Mare tranquillitatis
- (planetology) The Sea of Tranquility (“Mare Tranquillitatis”): A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System;
References
- The Face of the Moon, 7. Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (1598-1671)., Linda Hall Library