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 CAUCASUS - Caucasus 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.

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