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Hipparchus

/ˌhɪˈpɑrkəs/
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Definitions of Hipparchus
  1. 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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    astronomer, stargazer, uranologist
    a physicist who studies astronomy
    mathematician
    a person skilled in mathematics
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