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10 LIVROS EM INGLÊS RELACIONADOS COM «HIPPARCHUS»
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Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia
Hipparchus (190–120 BCE) Hipparchus was the most important as- tronomer of
the Hellenistic Age after Aristarchus of Samos. Unlike Aristarchus, Hipparchus
believed in the spherical,geocen- tric universe of Aristotle.A noted mathematician
...
2
Encyclopedia of World Scientists
HIPPoCRATES oF CoS 337 Hipparchus (ca. 170 b.c.–ca. 120 b.c.) Greek
Astronomer Known for his methodical observational skills and innovative mind,
Hipparchus did much to advance the field of astronomy and to transform it into a ...
3
Planetary Motions: A Historical Perspective
Hipparchus and the Statue of Atlas No one anticipated a new discovery in the
twenty-first century about Hipparchus's long-lost star catalog compiled more than
two thousand years earlier, around 127 B.C. Yet in 2005 a pictorial presentation
of ...
Norriss S. Hetherington, 2006
4
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
Astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the 2nd century BC Hipparchus,
the first astronomer to combine observation and trigonometry, was born in Nicaea
, Bithynia, and flourished in the middle of the 2nd century BC, the years of his ...
5
The History of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue
Should it turn out that the stars of Hipparchus deviate significantly from the
positions of the stars in the Almagest, whose ecliptical longitudes, according to
Delambre's interpretation, would be decreased by 2°40', it would prove that the ...
6
Ptolemy in Perspective: Use and Criticism of his Work from ...
Though most of the dated observations of Hipparchus preserved in the Almagest
fall within the interval between 147 and 127 B.C., in the list of equinox
observations that Ptolemy extracted from Hipparchus' On the Displacement of the
Solstitial ...
7
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
He compiled the first trigonometric table (giving the chord function) and may well
have invented trigonometry. Hipparchus introduced 360° angle measure and
sexagesimal arithmetic from Babylon, invented a stellar magnitude scale that we
...
Thomas Hockey, Katherine Bracher, Marvin Bolt, 2007
8
Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and ...
Aravtou kai; Eujdovxou Fainomevnwn ejxjhghvsew" bibliva triva and written by
Hipparchus of Nicaea in the later second century BC. The commentary is
concerned principally with correcting Aratus' ...
Eleanor Dickey Associate Professor of Classics Columbia University, 2007
9
The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy
a similar measurement made earlier by Hipparchus. According to Ptolemy,
Hipparchus observed this star in the 50th year of the third Callippic period (129/
128 B.C.) and found it to be 29°5o' east of the summer solstitial point. Since
Ptolemy ...
10
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: ...
Stnbo, Suidas, &c., state that Hipparchus was • X:..3f3. in Bithynia ; and Ptolemy (
De Adpar. /smstf.sub fin.), in a list in which he has expressly pnbtud oat the
localities in which astronomers Eiie their observations, calls him a Bithynian. Bs
the ...
10 NOTÍCIAS NAS QUAIS SE INCLUI O TERMO «HIPPARCHUS»
Conheça de que se fala nos meios de comunicação nacionais e internacionais e como se utiliza o termo
Hipparchus no contexto das seguintes notícias.
The Starry Dome
Hipparchus of Bithynia carved it out from Centaurus in the 200s B.C., naming it as some kind of wild beast. It went through a number of transformations until the ... «Desertexposure, jul 15»
Amazon has become the next Great Library of Alexandria
Hipparchus established the first atlas of the stars and calculated the length of the solar year accurately to within 6.5 minutes. Euclid wrote his ... «Good E-Reader, jun 15»
How to See Ursa Minor, the Night Sky's Little Dipper
The magnitude system has its origins in the classification by brightness of about 1,000 stars carried out by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus in ... «Space.com, jun 15»
How to tell the stars are moving
... Halley) when he compared the current location of stars against their recorded position in the Hipparchus catalog of almost 2,000 years ago. «McCook Daily Gazette, jun 15»
Pennsylvania Starwatch: Jupiter is brightest object in the sky
One of the first to officially document the Beehive cluster was Greek astronomer Hipparchus who observed it around 130 BC. He registered it in ... «Republican & Herald, abr 15»
O'Brien dominates Derby possibles
Andre Fabre, who sent out Pour Moi to win the 2011 renewal, has Harlem, Heredity and Hipparchus for owner Khalid Abdullah. The unraced ... «Irish Independent, mar 15»
Reduced ban a weight off Andrew Thornton's mind
Andre Fabre, who sent out Pour Moi to win the 2011 renewal, has Harlem, Heredity and Hipparchus for owner Khalid Abdullah. The unraced ... «Scotsman, mar 15»
How far is Betelgeuse?
It was called Hipparcos, named after the famed Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who applied trigonometry to the problem of stellar distances ... «EarthSky, fev 15»
Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism, the First Computer
... Babylonian in origin and begins in 205 B.C. Maybe it was Hipparchus, an astronomer in Rhodes around that time, who worked out the math behind the device. «Smithsonian, jan 15»
Comet 'Lovejoy' To Travel Across Oklahoma Sky
It's a "backward" scale that astronomers inherited from the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus. The brightest stars are magnitude 0 and 1. «News On 6, jan 15»
