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- In the Hipparchian, Ptolemaic, and Copernican systems of astronomy, the epicycle (from Ancient Gr**** ἐπίκυκλος (epí****los) 'upon the circle', meaning...
- reconstructed by a historian of science. For: common errors in the reconstructed Hipparchian star catalogue and the Almagest suggest a direct transfer without re-observation...
- Surya Siddhanta provides table of sines function which parallel the Hipparchian table of chords, though the Indian calculations are more accurate and...
- months, equal to 5923 draconic months (441.3 years). This is called the Hipparchian Period, and more recently the Babylonian Period, but the latter is a...
- Grattan Guinness in a speculative interpretation of Revelation 9:15. Hipparchian Fourteen inex plus two saros. The Almagest attributes this cycle to Hipparchus...