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- catalogue. Hipparchus is sometimes called the "father of astronomy", a title conferred on him by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre in 1817. Hipparchus was born...
- Hipparchus, the common Latinization of the Gr**** Hipparkhos, can mean: Hipparchus, the ancient Gr**** astronomer Hipparchic cycle, an astronomical cycle...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hipparchus, anglicized hipparch (Gr****: ἵππαρχος, romanized: hipparchos), was the title of an ancient Gr**** cavalry officer, commanding a hipparchia (unit...
- 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...
- ancient Gr**** mathematician Hipparchus who appears from evidence in Plutarch to have known of these numbers. The Schröder–Hipparchus numbers may be used to...
- attempted to reconstruct the methods of Hipparchus using the available texts. Most of what is known about Hipparchus' text comes from two ancient sources:...
- proved Hipparchus was not the sole source of Ptolemy's catalog, as they both had claimed, and proved that Ptolemy did not simply copy Hipparchus' measurements...