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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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  • :This article is about Ptolemy the astronomer, mathematician, and ... philosopher, geographer, map maker, astronomer, theologian, and astrologer ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • came from the Hellenistic mathematician Hipparchus Joseph Hunt, [http://www ... In the tenth century, the Persian mathematician and astronomer Abul ...
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  • the celestial sphere, like the great astronomer Chang Heng of the first ... directly from the German mathematician-astronomer Christopher Clavius who ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ) (CE 78–139) was a Chinese polymath, being a astronomer, mathematician ... As an astronomer, Zhang cataloged 2500 stars, and recognized 124 distinct ...
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  • The Italian astronomer Geminiano Montanari recorded observing variations ... William Herschel was the first astronomer to attempt to determine ...
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