Sea of Tranquility
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Calque of Latin Mare Tranquilitatis (“spelled with one-"L"”), from Latin mare (“sea”)+tranquilitatis (“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.[1]
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- (planetology) A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; location of the first manned moon landing, in 1969.
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- ^ The Face of the Moon, 7. Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (1598-1671)., Linda Hall Library