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Hipparchus Of Nicea
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Hipparchus of Nicaea (city)/) was a prominent Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician, often regarded as the greatest observational astronomer of antiquity. Born in Nicaea (modern İznik, Turkey), he conducted the majority of his significant work in Rhodes. His contributions fundamentally shaped subsequent Hellenistic and early Islamic astronomy models, particularly regarding the …
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Stellar Catalogues
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The earliest systematic attempts to list celestial objects predate the telescope and focused primarily on charting navigational reference points. The Babylonian Mul.Apin tablets (circa 1000 BCE) provided early systematic lists, though these were primarily concerned with the risings and settings of asterisms rather than precise stellar magnitudes.
The most influential pre-telescopic compilation was the Almagest by [Claudius Ptolemy](/entries/claud…