13.Eudoxus

On the left side of the chart the Caucasus mountains, separating Mara Imbrium, and Mare Serenitatis, at the bottom of the chart the north-western part of Mare Serenitatis with the clear rays of the crater Aristillus (Chart 12) The mighty craters of Eudoxus and Aristillus form a clearly visible pair. (Chart 5)

ALEXANDER - Alexander III of Macedonia,  the Great ( Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας)   (20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC),  King of Macedonia. Worked for the expansion of his kingdom to India. Seized Babylon and burnt Persepolis.

Crater. (85Km /50Mi ø ) (40.3° N, 13.5° E) Completely wrecked formation. Triangular form. Very damaged slopes supporting Calippus to the South-West. High walls collapsed to the East. Flat floor filled with dark lava. Hills, rilles and craterlets. Two white spots.

CALIPPUS - Calippos (Κάλλιπος) (Born: Cyzicus, Greece, ca. 370 BC – ca. 300 BC) Astronomer. Pupil of Eudoxus.

Crater. (34Km /20Mi ø ) (Dept: 2,690m /8,200ft) (38.9° N, 10.7° E) Situated in Montes Caucasus. Circular formation. Steep slopes supporting the craterlet Calippus E to the East. Deformed high walls to the East. Tormented floor. Hills and craterlets.

MONTES CAUCASUSCaucasus Mountains. Named after the Caucasus Mountains on the Earth by the German selenographer Johann H. Mädler.

Montes. (536Km /61Mi ø ) (Height: 3,650m /1,1100ft) (39.0° N, 9.0° E)  Continuation of the Apennines. Mountains intersected with deep and
numerous valleys Saddled by the crater Calippus.

EGEDE -  Hans Egede. Norwegian Missionary, born in Harstad, Norway in 1686 - Died: Stubbekjøbing, Denmark, 1758) Lutheran parson living with the native people of Greenland.

Crater. (37Km /22Mi ø ) (Dept: 420m /1,300ft) (48.7° N, 10.6° E) Circular formation. Few steep slopes, high walls. Flat floor filled with somber lava. Craterlets. Named by Mädler (1837)

EUDOXUS - Eudoxus of Cnidus (Εὔδοξος ὁ Κνίδιος) (408 BC – 355 BC)  (Born: Cnidus, Greece 408 BC - Died: Cnidus, Greece, 355 BC) Greek Astronomer. Student of Plato. Inventor of the year of 365 and ¼ days.  Author of the hypothesis of homocentric christal spheres. Author of a theory of proportions and the method of exhaustions in Mathematics.

Crater. (70Km /41Mi ø ) (Dept: 3,350m / 10,200ft) (44.3° N, 16.3° E) Forms a pair with Aristoteles. Circular formation. Very steep and tormented slopes supporting Eudoxus B to the North and Eudoxus G and A to the North-East. Very high walls with terraces. Tormented floor. Central mountains and hills.

LAMÈCH - Félix Chemla Lamèch (1894 – 1962) was a French meteorologist and selenographer.

Crater. (70Km /41Mi ø ) (Dept: 3,350m / 10,200ft) (44.3° N, 16.3° E)  Forms a pair with Aristoteles. Circular formation. Very steep and tormented slopes supporting Eudoxus B to the North and Eudoxus G and A to the North-East. Very high walls with terraces. Tormented floor. Central mountains and hills.

MARE SERENITATIS - Sea of Serenity. Named so by Riccioli.

Mare. (674km/419Mi ø ) (305,00km2) (28.0°N, 17.5°E) Location of a Mascon.

 

 

 

   

 

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