Hipparchus
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title:
Hipparchus
text:
Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. He is considered the founder of trigonometry, but is most famous for his incidental discovery of the precession of the equinoxes. Hipparchus was born in Nicaea, Bithynia, and probably died on the island of Rhodes, Greece. He is known to have been a working astronomer between 162 and 127 BC. Hipparchus is considered the greatest ancient astronomical observer and, by some, the greatest overall astronomer of antiquity. He was the fir
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2nd-century BC Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus
date created:
2001-07-27T18:48:05Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T21:53:00Z
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