1. MARKOV On the map we see part of the northwest of the side of the moon that is facing the Earth, clearly depicted is the Gulf of the Dew (Sinus Roris). The craters on the edge of the area are most clearly visible around the full moon’s libration. CLEOSTRATUS - Cleostratus of Ténédos (Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος). Born: around 500 BC in Ténédos. Greek Poet and Astronomer. Improved the Athenian calendar by implementing of an 8 year lunisolar cycle. Author of the system of signs of the Zodiac.
GALVANI - Luigi Galvani, Born: 1737 in Bologna - Died: 1798 in Bologna. Italian physicist and physician. Specialist of the compared anatomy. Discoverer of the nervous electrical impulse.
LANGLEY - Samuel P. Langley, Born in 1834 at Roxbury, USA - Died in 1906 at Aiken, USA. American astronomer and physicist. Inventor of the bolometer in 1881. Measured the atmospheric permeability to the solar light. Constructor of a plane in 1896. Determined the permeability of the atmosphere for different wavelengths of the solar spectrum.
MARKOV - Andrei Andreyevich Markov (Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков) Born: 1856 in Riazan - Died: 1922 in Petrograd. Mathematician. Demonstrated inequalities of Tchebychev in 1884. Specialized in the theory of probabilities.
OENOPIDES - Oenopides of Chios, (Οἰνοπίδης). Born around 500 BC in Chio - Lived till around 450 BC. Mathematician geometer and astronomer. Has measured the inclination of Ecliptic as compared to the celestial equator. He found this angle to be 24°, thus measuring the inclination of the earth's axis. Determination of the 12 signs of the Zodiac.
RÉGNAULT
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Victor Régnault, Born, 1810 in Aachen, Germany - Died, 1878 in Paris,
France. Chemist and physicist. Discoverer of the chloride of vinyl in
1835. Member of the Academy of Sciences in 1840. Has perfected the steam
machine. Famous photographer.
REPSOLD
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Johann G. Repsold. Born, 1771 in Germany - Died 1830 in Germany.
Optician, inventor of Optical - Mechanical and Astronomical precisian
instruments. SINUS RORIS - Bay of Dew. Arthur C. Clarke's novel "A Fall of Moondust" is set in a fictional "Sea of Thirst" located within Sinus Roris.
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STOKES - Sir Georges Gabriel Stokes. Irish Mathematician and physicist. Born in 1819, Skreen, Ireland - Died 1903 in Cambridge, UK. Important contributions to spectral analysis and hydrodynamics. Discoverer of the electromagnetic nature of X rays.
VOLTA
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Comte Alessandro Volta, Italian Physicist. Born; 1745 Como, Italia -
Died in 1827, Como, Italia. Inventor of the electroscope in 1782 and the
first electrical battery in 1800.
XENOPHANES
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Xénophane of Colophon.
(Ξενοφάνης
ὁ Κολοφώνιος). Greek
Philosopher born in 570 BC, Colophon, Greece - Died in 478 BC. Poet and
satirical author.
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