- catalogue.
Hipparchus is
sometimes called the "father of astronomy", a
title conferred on him by Jean
Baptiste Joseph Delambre in 1817.
Hipparchus was born...
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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...
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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...
-
attempted to
reconstruct the
methods of
Hipparchus using the
available texts. Most of what is
known about Hipparchus' text
comes from two
ancient sources:...
-
their origins in
Hipparchus's lost catalogue" New York
Times article on Dr. Schaefer's
presentation Space.com
article on the
Hipparchus' star catalogue...
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Socrates recounts the life of
Hipparchus, a
tyrant of 6th
century Athens and son of the
famous ruler Peisistratus.
Hipparchus was
known for his maxims, one...
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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...
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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...
