Sea of Tranquility

专有名词

英文释义

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

词形变化

the Sea of Tranquility canonical Sea of Tranquillity alternative

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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