See also:

• HIPPARCHUS (fl. 146-126 B.c.)

HIPPARCHUS (fl. 146-126 B.c.)  ,See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• NICAEA, COUNCIL OF
• NICAEA, or NICE

Nicaea in See also:

• BITHYNIA (BtOvpta)

Bithynia See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in the 2nd See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . He observed in the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of See also:

• RHODES
• RHODES, CECIL JOHN (1853-1902)
• RHODES, JAMES FORD

Rhodes probably from 161, certainly from 146 until about 126 B.C., and made the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of the precession of the equinoxes in 130 (see See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

ASTRONOMY: See also:

• HISTORY

History) . The outburst of a new See also:

• STAR

star in 134 B.C. is stated by See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny (Hist. nat. ii . 26) to have prompted the preparation of his See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of 1oSo stars, substantially embodied in See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy's Almagest . See also:

• HIPPARCHUS (fl. 146-126 B.c.)

Hipparchus founded See also:

• TRIGONOMETRY (from Gr. rpiywvov, a triangle, /ATpov, measure)

trigonometry, and compiled the first table of chords . Scientific See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography originated with his invention of the method of fixing terrestrial positions by circles of See also:

• LATITUDE (Lat. latitudo, latus, broad)

latitude and See also:

• LONGITUDE (from Lat. longitudo, " length ")

longitude . There can be little doubt that the fundamental See also:

• PART

part of his astronomical knowledge was derived from See also:

• CHALDAEA

Chaldaea . None of his many See also:

• WORKS

works has survived except a Commentary on the Phaenomena of See also:

• ARATUS

Aratus and See also:

• EUDOXUS

Eudoxus, published by P . Victorius at See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence in 1567, and included by D . Petavius in his Uranologium (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1630) . A new edition was published by Carolus Manitius (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1894) . See J .

B . J . See also:

• DELAMBRE, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH (1749-1822)

Delambre, Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, i . 173; P . Tannery, Recherches sur l'histoire de l'astr. ancienne, p . 13o; A . See also:

• BERRY, CHARLES ALBERT (1852-1899)
• BERRY, CHARLES FERDINAND
• BERRY, JOHN, DUKE OF (1340-1416)
• BERRY, or BERRI

Berry, Hist. of Astronomy, pp . 4o-61 ; M . See also:

• MARIE

Marie, Hist. See also:

• DES

des sciences, i . 207; G . Cornewall See also:

• LEWIS, HENRY CARVILL
• LEWIS, JOHN FREDERICK (180 1876)
• LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY (1775-1818)
• LEWIS, MERIWETHER (1774-1809)
• LEWIS, SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL, BART

Lewis, Astronomy of the Ancients, p . 207; R .

See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

Grant, Hist. of Phys . Astronomy, pp . 318, 437; F . See also:

• BOLL

Boll, Sphaera, p . 61 (Leipzig, 1903); R . See also:

• WOLF
• WOLF (Canis lupus)
• WOLF, FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1759-1824)
• WOLF, HUGO (1860-1903)
• WOLF, JOSEPH (1820-1899)

Wolf, Geschichte der Astronomic, p . 45; J . F . See also:

• MONTUCLA, JEAN ETIENNE (1725-1799)

Montucla, Hist. des mathematiques, t. i. p . 257; J . A . See also:

• SCHMIDT, H
• SCHMIDT, HEINRICH JULIAN (1818-1886)
• SCHMIDT, KARL VON (1817-1875)
• SCHMIDT, WILHELM ADOLF (1812-1887)

Schmidt, Variorum philosophicorum decas, cap. i .

(Jenae, 1691) . (A . M .