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Lived: c. 190 - c. 120 BCE
One of antiquity’s greatest scientists: they founded the mathematical discipline of trigonometry, measured the earth-moon distance accurately, discovered the precession of the equinoxes, and documented the positions and magnitudes of over 850 stars. Their combinatorics work was unequalled until 1870.
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Hipparchus is considered the greatest ancient astronomical observer and, by some, the greatest overall astronomer of antiquity.
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