(noun.) Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC).
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Hipparchus made the first attempt to catalogue and map the stars with a view to checking any changes that might be occurring in the heavens. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Ptolemy drew up a catalogue of 1080 stars based on the earlier work of Hipparchus. 李贝.西洋科学史.
To Hipparchus and Ptolemy we owe also the beginnings of the science of trigonometry. 李贝.西洋科学史.