catalogue. Hipparchus is sometimes called the "father of astronomy", a title conferred on him by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre in 1817. Hipparchus was born...
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Hipparchus, the common Latinization of the Greek Hipparkhos, can mean: Hipparchus, the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchic cycle, an astronomical cycle...
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was the only 'tyrant'. Both Hipparchus and his father Pisistratus enjoyed the popular support of the people. Hipparchus was a patron of the arts; it...
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Hipparchus is the degraded remnant of a lunar impact crater. It was named after the Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician Hipparchus. It is located...
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Hipparchus, anglicized hipparch (Greek: ἵππαρχος, romanized: hipparchos), was the title of an ancient Greek cavalry officer, commanding a hipparchia (unit...
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Axial precession (section Hipparchus)
usually is attributed to Hipparchus (190–120 BC) of Rhodes or Nicaea, a Greek astronomer. According to Ptolemy's Almagest, Hipparchus measured the longitude...
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classicist Thomas Heath, Hipparchus was the first to employ such a method to map the stars, at least in the West. Hipparchus is also credited with creating...
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ancient Greek mathematician Hipparchus who appears from evidence in Plutarch to have known of these numbers. The Schröder–Hipparchus numbers may be used to...
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period of 3.4 hours. It was named for the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus. Hipparchus is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population...
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proved Hipparchus was not the sole source of Ptolemy's catalog, as they both had claimed, and proved that Ptolemy did not simply copy Hipparchus' measurements...
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attempted to reconstruct the methods of Hipparchus using the available texts. Most of what is known about Hipparchus' text comes from two ancient sources:...
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all his predecessors. Hipparchus' celestial globe had an ecliptic drawn in, but the coordinates were equatorial. Since Hipparchus' star catalogue has not...
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the Eleusinian Mysteries. In Plato's Hipparchus, Socrates attributes the existence of these statues to Hipparchus. They were meant to educate the people...
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Socrates recounts the life of Hipparchus, a tyrant of 6th century Athens and son of the famous ruler Peisistratus. Hipparchus was known for his maxims, one...
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early post-Hipparchus period, two schools of thought developed about the slow shift of the fixed sphere of stars as discovered by Hipparchus. One school...
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their origins in Hipparchus's lost catalogue" New York Times article on Dr. Schaefer's presentation Space.com article on the Hipparchus' star catalogue...
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brother, Hipparchus, who acted as the minister of culture. The two continued their father's policies, but their popularity declined after Hipparchus began...
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however, compared to the interior of Halley. Hind and the craters Hipparchus C and Hipparchus L form a line with diminishing diameters that point to the northeast...
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media related to Leptodeuterocopus hipparchus. Wikispecies has information related to Leptodeuterocopus hipparchus. Gielis, C. (2006). "Review of the...
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at the advances made by Hipparchus toward Harmodius and with a small group of accomplices he had planned to kill both Hipparchus and his brother. When the...
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Bradley Schaefer (section Hipparchus's star catalog)
of Hipparchus and a sculpture called The Farnese Atlas, created in the 2nd century, and thus a potential source for antique astronomy. Hipparchus is considered...
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dialogue Hipparchus (not really by Plato, but probably of the fourth century BC) attributes it to Hipparchus, son of Peisistratos (Athens). The Hipparchus adds...
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standard sexagesimal divisions, was a degree. Aristarchus of Samos and Hipparchus seem to have been among the first Greek scientists to exploit Babylonian...
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the ecliptic, or about 25,800 years". Ptolemy reported that his teacher Hipparchus, by comparing the position of the vernal equinox against the fixed stars...
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First-magnitude star (section Hipparchus)
night sky, with apparent magnitudes lower (i.e. brighter) than +1.50. Hipparchus, in the 1st century BC, introduced the magnitude scale. He allocated the...
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first rigorous system of latitude and longitude lines is credited to Hipparchus. He employed a sexagesimal system that was derived from Babylonian mathematics...
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translation comes to 148.7 to 152.8 billion metres (accurate within 2%). Hipparchus also gave an estimate of the distance of Earth from the Sun, quoted by...
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Ancient Greek astronomy (section Hipparchus)
among the successors of Hipparchus in later eras, such as Ptolemy, relied on Hipparchus for their information of it. Hipparchus' observations allowed him...
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world in either the 1st or 2nd centuries BCE and is often attributed to Hipparchus. A combination of the planisphere and dioptra, the astrolabe was effectively...
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Hipparchus or Hipparch of Euboea (Greek: Ἵππαρχος; fl. 4th century BC) was one of the warmest partisans of Philip of Macedon, who rewarded him for his...
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