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The double oblong crater Heraclitus with its northern half overlain by Licetus and its southeastern rim destroyed by Heraclitus D. The shallow bowl crater to the southeast is Cuvier. Image taken by Damian Peach on March 1, 2012. (North up.)
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Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. 2, translated by R. D. Hicks (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, Loeb Classical Library number 185, 1995), 417.
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Since 1999 B.C., there have been 54 transits of Venus, visible somewhere on Earth, but as of June 5, 2012, only the last 7 are known to have been observed. Johannes Kepler was the first to predict a Transit of Venus, but he did not live to see the one on December 7, 1631.
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Henry Pratt, “On Dr. Klein’s Supposed New Crater, and the Region North of Hyginus”, The Observatory, 2 (21) (January 1, 1879), 296–300.
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Hugh Percy Wilkins, Our Moon (London: Frederick Muller, 1954), 60.
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Garfinkle, R.A. (2020). Crater-Hopping: Observing the Moon on Day 7: First Quarter. In: Luna Cognita. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1664-1_12
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