Hipparchus ✓
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Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician (c.
About Hipparchus
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 127Â BC.
Notable works:
Hipparchi bithyni in arati et eudoxi phaenomena libri III..
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