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Hipparchus
Translation of "hipparchus" into Russian
Hipparchus
Proper noun
Hipparchus
Hipparchuses
Hipparchus compiled the first known star catalog in the Western world.
Гиппарх составил первый известный звёздный каталог в западном мире.
Definitions
Hipparchus
Proper noun
An ancient Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of Nicaea (c. 190–c. 120 BCE), regarded as the founder of trigonometry and the discoverer of the precession of the equinoxes.
Hipparchus compiled the first known star catalog in the Western world.
A large lunar impact crater named after the astronomer, situated in the Moon's central highlands.
The probe photographed Hipparchus near the terminator.