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De Morgan is a small
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that is located in the central region of the
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, midway between the crater
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two crater diameters to the south, and Cayley to the north. Its diameter is 9.7 km. It is named after
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logician
Augustus De Morgan Augustus De Morgan (27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871) was a British mathematician and logician. He is best known for De Morgan's laws, relating logical conjunction, disjunction, and negation, and for coining the term "mathematical induction", the ...
. This crater is circular and bowl-shaped, with a small interior floor at the midpoint between the conical, sloping inner wall.


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External links


De Morgan at The Moon Wiki
* Chuck Wood, Lunar Photo of the Day, - includes a couple of craters such as De Morgan (sometimes as de Morgan) {{Craters on the Moon: C-F Impact craters on the Moon