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Hipparchus
Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. He is considered the founder of trigonometry, but is most famous for his incidental discovery of the precession of the equinoxes. Hipparchus was born in Nicaea, Bithynia, and probably died on the island of Rhodes, Greece. He is known to have been a working astronomer between 162 and 127 BC.
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science · Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician (c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) · astronomer · mathematician · geographer · also Hipparchus, Hipparchus of Nicaea, Hipparchus of Rhodes
Born 190 BC · Died 120 BC · Q159905
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2022· 5 entries
SpaceNews: Discovery Of Extracts From A Lost Astronomical Catalogue By Ancient Greek Astronomer Hipparchus
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Business Insider: Scholars found a long-lost star map from ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus hidden beneath layers of medieval Christian text
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Ars Technica: Part of lost star catalog of Hipparchus found lurking under medieval codex
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Phys.org: Hipparchus's map of the stars may finally have been found
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It was announced that a part of it was discovered in a medieval parchment manuscript, Codex Climaci Rescriptus, from Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt as hidden text (palimpsest)
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2005· 2 entries
Astronomy: Hipparchus’s sky catalog found
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When it was again proposed (as in 1898) that the data on the celestial globe of Hipparchus or in his star catalog may have been preserved in the only surviving large ancient celestial globe which depicts the constellatio
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (2004).
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1960· 1 entry
Published “The Geographical Fragments of Hipparchus. With an Introduction and Commentary” in The Classical World.
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1926· 1 entry
Published “ASTRONOMY AND LETTERS.” in The Lancet.
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1856· 1 entry
Who placed the magnitudes on a logarithmic scale, making magnitude 1 stars 100 times brighter than magnitude 6 stars, thus each magnitude is 5√100 or 2
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1851· 1 entry
Published “Subbatical and Jubilee Years of the jews” in Notes and Queries.
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