2nd century Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician. Hipparchus was born in 190 BCE in what is now Turkey. Hipparchus is remembered as an astronomer, mathematician and geographer, a citizen of the Kingdom of Pergamon. Notable works include “Ton Aratou kai Eudoxou Phainomenon exegeseos biblia tria”, “Against the Geography of Eratosthenes” and “On Bodies Carried Down by Their Weight”.
Before and after
- 200 BCEOrigins of Nazca Lines
- from 200 BCE to 197 BCESecond Macedonian War
- 196 BCERosetta Stone
- from 192 BCE to 188 BCERoman–Seleucid War
- 190 BCEBirth of Hipparchus
- 183 BCEDeath of Hannibal
- from 180 BCE to 10 CEIndo-Greek Kingdoms
- 2nd century BCEWinged Victory of Samothrace
- from 171 BCE to 168 BCEThird Macedonian War
More in Science & technology
- 460 BCEBirth of Hippocrates
- 287 BCEBirth of Archimedes
- c. 285 BCEDeath of Euclid
- 212 BCEDeath of Archimedes
- 100 CEBirth of Ptolemy
- 132 CEZhang Heng builds the first seismoscope
The era
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