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Eudoxus

[ yoo-dok-suhs ]

noun

  1. a crater in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 40 miles (64 km) in diameter.


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Re Eudoxus Hillary has enriched herself by serving Wall Street and advanced her political position by serving the National Security State.

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The system of spheres of Eudoxus did not satisfy him, so he devised a method of representing the paths of the heavenly bodies by perfectly uniform motion in circles.

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Eudoxus reached apparently Senegambia, and then another mutiny broke out, and he had to return to Barbary.

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However, Eudoxus was a man of great determination, and on the death of Ptolemy VII. in the reign of his successor, he set out on another expedition to India.

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However, there is another statement of his which I think points to Eudoxus having gone far South, namely, that the reason of his turning back was an inability to get provisions, for this catastrophe is not likely to have overtaken so brave a man as he was until he reached the great mangrove swamps of the Niger.

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