catalogue. Hipparchus is sometimes called the "father of astronomy", a title conferred on him by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre in 1817. Hipparchus was born...

Hipparchus, the common Latinization of the Greek Hipparkhos, can mean: Hipparchus, the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchic cycle, an astronomical cycle...

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...

usually is attributed to Hipparchus (190–120 BC) of Rhodes or Nicaea, a Greek astronomer. According to Ptolemy's Almagest, Hipparchus measured the longitude...

classcist 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...

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...

ancient Greek mathematician Hipparchus who appears from evidence in Plutarch to have known of these numbers. The Schröder–Hipparchus numbers may be used to...

Hipparchus is the degraded remnant of a lunar impact crater. It was named after the Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician Hipparchus. It is located...

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...

Hipparchus, anglicized hipparch (Greek: ἵππαρχος, romanized: hipparchos), was the title of an ancient Greek cavalry officer, commanding a hipparchia (unit...

attempted to reconstruct the methods of Hipparchus using the available texts. Most of what is known about Hipparchus' text comes from two ancient sources:...

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...

among the successors of Hipparchus in later eras, such as Ptolemy, relied on Hipparchus for their information of it. Hipparchus' observations allowed him...

media related to Leptodeuterocopus hipparchus. Wikispecies has information related to Leptodeuterocopus hipparchus. Gielis, C. (2006). "Review of the...

the Eleusinian Mysteries. In Plato's Hipparchus, Socrates attributes the existence of these statues to Hipparchus. They were meant to educate the people...

standard sexagesimal divisions, was a degree. Aristarchus of Samos and Hipparchus seem to have been among the first Greek scientists to exploit Babylonian...

possible that some other astronomers before Hipparchus had also noticed the phenomenon, but it is Hipparchus who is credited with this discovery (See Ancient...

their origins in Hipparchus's lost catalogue" New York Times article on Dr. Schaefer's presentation Space.com article on the Hipparchus' star catalogue...

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...

Philoneus was archon when Pisistratus died and his sons Hippias and Hipparchus succeeded him as tyrants 527–526 BC Onetor 526–525 BC Hippias 525–524...

all his predecessors. Hipparchus' celestial globe had an ecliptic drawn in, but the coordinates were equatorial. Since Hipparchus' star catalogue has not...

brother, Hipparchus, who acted as the minister of culture. The two continued their father's policies, but their popularity declined after Hipparchus began...

channels in Hipparchus Crater. East side of Hipparchus, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Small channels in Hipparchus, as seen...

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...

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...

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...

at the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. A century later, Hipparchus of Nicaea improved on this system by determining latitude from stellar...

first rigorous system of latitude and longitude lines is credited to Hipparchus. He employed a sexagesimal system that was derived from Babylonian mathematics...

dialogue Hipparchus (not really by Plato, but probably of the fourth century BC) attributes it to Hipparchus, son of Peisistratos (Athens). The Hipparchus adds...

eccentric. Most of what we know about Hipparchus comes to us through citations of his works by Ptolemy. Hipparchus' models' features explained differences...