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- Hipparchus (Greek Ἳππαρχος) (ca. 190 B.C.E. - ca. 120 B.C.E.) was a Greek, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic ...39 KB (6,146 words) - 20:32, 17 July 2024
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- a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed ... from the Caspian Sea to Ethiopia. Only Hipparchus, Strabo, and Ptolemy were ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- Hipparchus (Greek Ἳππαρχος) (ca. 190 B.C.E. - ca. 120 B.C.E.) was a Greek, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic ...39 KB (6,146 words) - 20:32, 17 July 2024
- :This article is about Ptolemy the astronomer, mathematician, and ... philosopher, geographer, map maker, astronomer, theologian, and astrologer ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- work can be dated back to about 190 B.C.E., when Hipparchus used the catalog of his predecessors Timocharis and Aristillus to discover Earth’s precession ...10 KB (1,442 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- came from the Hellenistic mathematician Hipparchus Joseph Hunt, [http://www ... In the tenth century, the Persian mathematician and astronomer Abul ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- the celestial sphere, like the great astronomer Chang Heng of the first ... directly from the German mathematician-astronomer Christopher Clavius who ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- By 130 C.E., Ptolemy, influenced by Hipparchus and the Babylonians, was using a symbol for zero (a small circle with a long overbar) within a ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- ) (CE 78–139) was a Chinese polymath, being a astronomer, mathematician ... As an astronomer, Zhang cataloged 2500 stars, and recognized 124 distinct ...53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
- The Italian astronomer Geminiano Montanari recorded observing variations ... William Herschel was the first astronomer to attempt to determine ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
