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Hipparchus or Hipparch (Greek: ; c. 190 BC – c. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. Hipparchus was born in Nicaea (now Iznik, Turkey), and proba...
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Hipparchus is the degraded remnant of a lunar crater. It is located to the southeast of Sinus Medii, near the center of the visible Moon. To the south is the prominent crater Albategnius, and to the ...
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Hipparchus (190 BC-120 BC) ... Hipparchus of Rhodes ... Hipparchus was a Greek mathematician who compiled an early example of trigonometric tables and gave methods for solving spherical triangles.
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Biography of Hipparchus (BB^Y-120 BC) ... Let us first summarise the main contribution of Hipparchus and then examine them in more detail. He made an early contribution to trigonometry producing a table of chords, an early example of a trigonometric table;
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Hipparchus (190 - 120 B.C.) ... Hipparchus compared observations of a solar eclipse in Syene and in Alexandria to determine the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
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Hipparchus' many important and lasting contributions to astronomy included practical and well as theoretical innovations. He employed geometrical models, including the deferent-epicycle and eccentric previously used by Apollonius (flourished ca.
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The Astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes ... Hipparchus before-mentioned, who can never be sufficiently praised, no one having done more to prove that man is related to the stars and that our souls are a part of heaven, detected a new star that came into existence during his lifetime;
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Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer who lived between 190-120 B.C. He is considered the father of trigonometry, a branch of mathematics which studies the angles of sides of triangles. ... Hipparchus also developed the first accurate star map. It included over 850 stars, as well as descriptions of their brightness.
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Hipparchus, (b. Nicaea, Bithynia--d. after 127 BC, Rhodes?), Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes, calculated the length of the year to within 6 1/2 minutes, compiled the first known star catalog, and made an early formulation of trigonometry.
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