Saturday, May 18, 2013

Hipparchus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hipparchus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

 "Hipparchus /hɪˈpɑːrkəs/ of Nicaea, or more correctly Hipparchos (Greek: Ἵππαρχος, Hipparkhos; c. 190 BC – c. 120 BC), was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. He is considered the founder of trigonometry[1] but is most famous for his incidental discovery of precession of the equinoxes.[2]"

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