Charting the skies  the ancient Greek way

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | July 7, 2005| | Copyright

OREM -- After 20 years of teaching astronomy, Paul Mills at last knows -- with certainty -- the locations of constellations that were identified by the ancient Greeks.

Mills, who teaches at Utah Valley State College, and Brigham Young University linguist Roger Macfarlane are polishing their translation of "A Commentary on the 'Phaenomena' of Aratus and Eudoxus," written by astronomer Hipparchus in 130 B.C.

It is the first English translation of the book, originally written in Hellenic Greek..

Hipparchus is credited with discovering the precession of the equinox, a wobbling of the Earth's axis ...

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