- catalogue.
Hipparchus is
sometimes called the "father of astronomy", a
title conferred on him by Jean
Baptiste Joseph Delambre in 1817.
Hipparchus was born...
- was the only 'tyrant'. Both
Hipparchus and his
father Pisistratus enjo**** the po****r
support of the people.
Hipparchus was a
patron of the arts; it...
-
attempted to
reconstruct the
methods of
Hipparchus using the
available texts. Most of what is
known about Hipparchus' text
comes from two
ancient sources:...
-
Hipparchus, the
common Latinization of the Gr**** Hipparkhos, can mean:
Hipparchus, the
ancient Gr****
astronomer Hipparchic cycle, an
astronomical cycle...
-
Hipparchus is the
degraded remnant of a
lunar impact crater. It was
named after the Gr**** astronomer,
geographer and
mathematician Hipparchus. It is located...
-
usually is
attributed to
Hipparchus (190–120 BC) of
Rhodes or Nicaea, a Gr**** astronomer.
According to Ptolemy's Almagest,
Hipparchus measured the longitude...
-
ancient Gr****
mathematician Hipparchus who
appears from
evidence in
Plutarch to have
known of
these numbers. The Schröder–
Hipparchus numbers may be used to...
-
classicist Thomas Heath,
Hipparchus was the
first to
employ such a
method to map the stars, at
least in the West.
Hipparchus is also
credited with creating...
-
early post-
Hipparchus period, two
schools of
thought developed about the slow
shift of the
fixed sphere of
stars as
discovered by
Hipparchus. One school...
-
Hipparchus,
anglicized hipparch (Gr****: ἵππαρχος, romanized: hipparchos), was the
title of an
ancient Gr****
cavalry officer,
commanding a
hipparchia (unit...
