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The BC/AD conventions originated during some attempts to calculate the dates of Easter and Passover. About 460AD the astronomer Victorius devised an effective algorithm that was widely adopted. But in 530AD, the astronomer Dionysius Exiguus realized that Victorius's method did not work before the year we call...
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276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for "number two") because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean region in many fields.
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Hipparchus (fl. 190-120 B.C.), who lived about 100 years after Aristotle, is considered to have been the greatest ancient Greek astronomer (a scientist specializing in the study of matter in outer space).
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The Ancient Astronomer has climbed a tree to get a closer bead on the stars above why didn't he go into a field and avoid all the trouble? maybe he did it because he thought he could all photos handheld and unaltered ... Okay Steven - It's an Ancient Astronomer at Knight. Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )
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When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; ... When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; ... When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
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; Ancient Astronomer's ; Work Found On Roman Statue; 1-12-5 ... SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A Roman statue of Atlas -- the mythical titan who carried the heavens on his shoulders -- holds clues to the long-lost work of the ancient astronomer Hipparchus, an astronomical historian said on Tuesday.
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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A Roman statue of Atlas -- the mythical titan who carried the heavens on his shoulders -- holds clues to the long-lost work of the ancient astronomer Hipparchus, an astronomical historian says.
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Imagine yourself in some ancient ashrama in Vedic times. After the sun goes down, out come the stars. Remember, there are no electric lights, and animal-fat candles are rare. ... It is named after Giovanni Cassini, an astronomer who in 1671, measured Mars' position against the fixed stars from two sides of the Atlantic,
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