 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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Brotherly shove for Yeats' pics.(News)
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Byline: By LISA O'CONNOR
TWO paintings kept hidden from the public eye for more than a century will be sold - as their owners can't ...
 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Charting the skies — the ancient Greek way
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ...written in Hellenic Greek.. Hipparchus is credited with discovering...probably quoted more by (astronomer) Ptolemy than any other...Commentary," all of Hipparchus' work has been lost...sky. During his life, Hipparchus catalogued the stars in...His sky was redrawn by astronomers over time, ...
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FOR SO MANY, THE STARRY NIGHT IS GONE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...of stars goes back to the astronomer Hipparchus, who lived in...brightest stars in the sky Hipparchus called stars of the first...The faintest stars that Hipparchus could see (in those days...possible to recover the sky as Hipparchus or Hopkins saw it, awash...Amateur and professional ...
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Star brightness.(excerpt from 'Astronomy for All Ages: Discovering the Universe through Activities for Children and Adults')
Magazine article from: Science Activities
; ...in between. When astronomers talk about how bright...years ago, the Greek astronomer Hipparchus devised a system for...somewhere in between. In Hipparchus's system, the larger...strongly reminiscent of, Hipparchus's. Today the brightest...activity explained how astronomers rate the ...
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LIFE ON THE LINE International datelines notwithstanding, the Greenwich Meridian is the invisible line of longitude at which the year 2000 will officially begin. The photographer Brian Harris plots the line's course through England, while Charles Jennings tells its story
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...by the rest of the world? Hipparchus, the Greek astronomer, first had a go at fixing...Rhodes. Ptolemy, the Egyptian astronomer and geographer, then moved...and - since Maskelyne was Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Royal...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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JONATHAN CAINER.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...suspect it belonged to the Greek astronomer Hipparchus. I'm sure they are right...been lost or burned, we know Hipparchus was a real wizard. His maths...took the credit for the idea. Hipparchus also made a crucial contribution...
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New research reveals more details of 2,100-year-old calculator; Researchers re-imagine the mysterious Antikythera Mechanism.
Magazine article from: Network World
; ...the great 2nd century B.C. astronomer Hipparchus to account for the irregular...called first lunar anomaly in Hipparchus' lunar theory," says Francois...research team speculates that Hipparchus, who lived from about 140 to...
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VOA NEWS: STUDY FINDS ANCIENT GREEK ASTRONOMICAL COMPUTER AMAZINGLY SOPHISTICATED
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...island Antikythera in 1901. Astronomer Mike Edmunds of Cardiff...30 gears, which helped astronomers of the second century BC...motion developed by the astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes 2,100 years...fingerprints or actually 'Hipparchus made this' [inscribed...
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Delusions of centrality
Magazine article from: Natural History
; UNIVERSE Even astronomers have had a hard time accepting that humanity does...ones mapped by the second century B.C. Greek astronomer Hipparchus. Halley trusted the accuracy of Hipparchus's maps, but he also benefited from a baseline...
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The earliest computer; 2,000 years ago, Greeks could plot sun's path.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...predict eclipses, was so advanced that astronomers describe it of having greater historical...000 years later. Cardiff University astronomer Professor Mike Edmunds, who led the...device, but contenders include the astronomer Hipparchus. The device contained 'calendar...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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CAESAR'S BOAST DIMS IN THE HARSH LIGHT OF SCIENCE.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...a flaky, unstable guy. Astronomers have known for some time...Astronomical Society in Denver, astronomers reported that Polaris is...bright. In the 1500s, the astronomer Tycho Brahe recorded an...scale devised by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 120 B.C. ranking...
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