Hipparchus

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2707. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Hipparchus (2nd century BC) was the most highly regarded Greek astronomer in antiquity before Ptolemy. In a series of writings, only one of which has come down to us, he investigated a wide range of problems in observational and mathematical astronomy. In his most important works he studied the periodicities of the motions of the heavenly bodies and used observations to test and quantify geometri...

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