 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Charting the skies — the ancient Greek way
; ...and Eudoxus," written by astronomer Hipparchus in 130 B.C. It is the first English...originally written in Hellenic Greek.. Hipparchus is credited with discovering the precession...other." Except for "Commentary," all of Hipparchus' work has been lost -- most notably...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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JONATHAN CAINER.
; ...it belonged to the Greek astronomer Hipparchus. I'm sure they are right. Though most...long since been lost or burned, we know Hipparchus was a real wizard. His maths were so...Copernicus took the credit for the idea. Hipparchus also made a crucial contribution to...
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Star brightness.(excerpt from 'Astronomy for All Ages: Discovering the Universe through Activities for Children and Adults')
; ...000 years ago, the Greek astronomer Hipparchus devised a system for categorizing stars...stars fell somewhere in between. In Hipparchus's system, the larger the magnitude number...but still strongly reminiscent of, Hipparchus's. Today the brightest objects have...
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NORTH STAR TAKES ON NEW SHINE
; ...was invented in ancient Greece by Hipparchus. The brightest stars in the sky were labeled first-magnitude stars by Hipparchus. Those about one-half as bright...sixth-magnitude stars, the dimmest stars Hipparchus could see. Today, Polaris is classified...
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The Tropic of Cancer: the complete guide to The Tropic of Cancer Midsummer means you must take care when 23 degrees and 27 minutes north of the Equator: on 21 June the sun is directly overhead at noon, defining the Tropic of Cancer. This invisible line of latitude offers a world of opportunities - just remember a hat.
; ...Cancer is the Latin word for crab, and one of the 12 signs of the zodiac. In the second century BC, a Greek astronomer called Hipparchus observed that the sun appeared to be within the boundaries of Cancer at the summer solstice, and the name stuck. IS IT A GOOD...
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Ancient computer.(History in the News)(Brief article)
; ...inscriptions on the machine suggest it was in use up to thirty years earlier and may have been the work of the noted Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who died in 120 BC. Researchers believe the mechanism was used to chart the movement of the moon and the sun and perhaps...
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(book reviews)
; ...most of the references by the Armenian translator/redactor to other Greek authorities such as Ptolemy, Marinus of Tyre, and Hipparchus derive from Pappus' work. Surely more controversial is his suggestion, following Soukry, that under the designation Constantine...
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EARLY INVENTION
; ...HAVE LEARNED TO ACCURATELY PREDICT WHEN THE NEW MOON WILL BECOME VISIBLE. The methods for doing this were known by the Greek Hipparchus in the 2d century BC and the Egyptian Ptolemy in the first century AD. A mechanical analog computer, the astrolabe, was produced...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Jewels of light in heavenly winter skies; Birmingham Astronomical Society reports on the night sky for December.(Features)
; ...stars we see are light years away. The brightness of stars is expressed in terms of magnitude. The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus started the system in the second century BC. He divided all known stars into six categories of brightness from first magnitude...
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When the US sheriff rides in . . .
; ...couple, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who killed the Athenian tyrant Hipparchus in about 510BC. Their motives may not have been entirely pure - some think they stabbed Hipparchus to death because of a lovers' tiff - but they were honoured throughout...
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