Sea of Tranquility

短语

词形变化

the Sea of Tranquility

别名

Tranquility Sea of Tranquillity

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; location of the first manned moon landing, in 1969.

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词源

Calque of Latin Mare Tranquilitātis (spelled with one L), from Latin mare (“sea”)+tranquilitātis (“tranquility”). 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.

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