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    Apollonius. The following craters have been renamed by the IAU. Apollonius C — See Ameghino (crater). Apollonius D — See Cartan (crater). Apollonius G...
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    information on Apollonius remains. The 6th century Greek commentator Eutocius of Ascalon, writing on Apollonius' Conics, states: Apollonius, the geometrician...
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    lunar impact crater near the eastern edge of the Moon. It lies just to the west of the larger Apollonius. The rim is circular with a tiny crater along the...
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    previously designated Apollonius T. The crater Apollonius is located to the east-southeast. Bombelli is a roughly circular crater with a slight outward...
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    Daly is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the eastern part of the Moon, to the northwest of the crater Apollonius. This formation is relatively...
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    Abbot. It was designated Apollonius K before being given its name by the IAU. Apollonius itself lies to the east of the crater Abbot. "Abbot". Gazetteer...
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    designated Apollonius C before being given a name by the IAU, in honour of the Argentine scientific and paleontologist Florentino Ameghino. Apollonius itself...
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    French physicist. The crater lies to the south of the crater Townley, and east of Condon. Farther to the northwest is Apollonius. Petit was previously...
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    Mare Spumans and southeast of the crater Apollonius. This crater was previously designated Apollonius G. This crater is generally circular, with inner...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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    physicist Edward U. Condon in 1976. It lies midway between the larger crater Apollonius to the north and the smaller Webb to the south on the Mare Fecunditatis...
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    Moon of the 20th century, Apollo 17. February 21 – Luna 20, 55g from Apollonius Crater (sample return mission) April 21 – Apollo 16, 95 kg from Descartes...
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    the Upper Imbrian epoch. The crater Petit (formerly Apollonius W) is located on the western rim of the mare. This crater is white and surrounded by a...
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    Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus. With Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga, Euclid is generally considered among the greatest mathematicians...
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    The crater is located to the west of the Mare Undarum, and northeast of the similar-sized crater Apollonius. To the north of Firmicus are the craters van...
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    243 Ida (redirect from Acmon (crater))
    together. Its surface is one of the most heavily cratered in the Solar System, featuring a wide variety of crater sizes and ages. Ida's moon Dactyl was discovered...
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  • Apollonius of Perga reported that Conon worked on conic sections, and his work became the basis for Apollonius' fourth book of the Conics. Apollonius...
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  • named after Pierre de Fermat, a French amateur mathematician. Fermat–Apollonius circle Fermat–Catalan conjecture Fermat cubic Fermat curve Fermat–Euler...
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    Odyssey 12.85). Perhaps trying to reconcile these conflicting accounts, Apollonius of Rhodes says that Crataeis was another name for Hecate, and that she...
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  • The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of the Moon. The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
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  • sources are the scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, which were dated to about the time of Tiberius by Apollonius' editor R. Merkel, in the preface...
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    Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley Apollodorus, 3.10.1 Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1561 Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation...
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  • 11.4 Apollodorus, 2.1.5 Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.37 pp. 370-371 Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Notes on Book 3.1689 Hyginus, Fabulae 154; Ovid, Metamorphoses...
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  • List of lunar features (category Impact craters on the Moon)
    surface of the Moon has many features, including mountains and valleys, craters, and maria—wide flat areas that look like seas from a distance but are...
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    century BC. She is mentioned in the writings of Plutarch and in the scholia to Apollonius of Rhodes as a female astronomer and as the daughter of Hegetor (or Hegemon)...
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  • interpolated into Diophantus's original text, and another commentary on Apollonius of Perga's treatise on conic sections, which has not survived. Many modern...
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  • 9.2 & 3.10.3 Hyginus, Fabulae 45 Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.151-155 Virgil, Aeneid 9.768 Apollodorus, 3.4.4 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by...
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    text) Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.597–600 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.309–313 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.220–221 Apollonius Rhodius...
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  • used Hipparchus for the Sun, Sudines and Kidynas and Apollonius for the Moon, and again Apollonius for both types (of eclipses, i.e. solar and lunar)....
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    2007 ISBN 978-0-73870978-9), p. 9 Palaephatus, On Unbelievable Tales 52 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.596-610; 4.620-626 Diodorus Siculus, Library of...
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