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Philolaus is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Moon's near side. It lies within one crater diameter to the east-southeast...

is a low-rimmed lunar impact crater near the north-northwest limb of the Moon. It lies to the west of the crater Philolaus, and northeast of Carpenter...

is the remnant of a lunar impact crater that is located near the northern limb of the Moon, to the north of Philolaus and northwest of Anaxagoras. Almost...

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...

defined by impact craters that possess bright optically immature ray systems. The crater Copernicus is a prominent example of rayed crater, but it does not...

hemispherical. Aristarchus was influenced by the concept presented by Philolaus of Croton (c. 470 – 385 BC) of a fire at the center of the universe, but...

of crater Philolaus, which he watched for fifteen minutes before it faded from sight. Three years later he observed another red glow west of crater Lichtenberg...

stretches east to north of Mare Serenitatis. It is just north of the dark crater Plato. The basin material surrounding the mare is of the Lower Imbrian epoch...

Goldschmidt, Hermite, J. Herschel, Meton, Nansen, Pascal, Petermann, Philolaus, Plaskett, Pythagoras, Rozhdestvenskiy, Schwarzschild, Seares, Sommerfeld...

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...

Aristarchos of Samos, Cleomedes, Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Plutarch, Philolaus, Heraclides, Ecphantos, Plato), gathering, especially while at Padua,...

He seemed to correctly gather that the moon reflects the Sun's light. A crater on the Moon is named in his honor. Rather than assuming that earthquakes...

was built in honor of his moral influence on the youth of his era. The crater Zeno on the Moon is named in his honour. Following the ideas of the Old...

namesakes are the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid spacecraft, the lunar crater Euclides, and the minor planet 4354 Euclides. The Elements is often considered...

of free will, not determined by any previous action before. Anaxagoras (crater) on the Moon Laertius 2.15 Ancient Greek: ἐνθάδε, πλεῖστον ἀληθείας ἐπὶ...

interpretations of him made by later writers and polemicists. The Anaximenes crater on the Moon is named in his honor. Early medical practice developed ideas...

17, 2012. Both spacecraft impacted an unnamed lunar mountain between Philolaus and Mouchez at 75°37′N 26°38′W / 75.62°N 26.63°W / 75.62; -26.63. Ebb...

rocky, thus opaque, and closer to the Earth than the Sun. c. 400 BCE – Philolaus and other Pythagoreans propose a model in which the Earth and the Sun...