Hipparchus was also believed to be compiling a star catalog—perhaps the earliest known attempt to map the night sky to date—sometime between 162 and 127 BCE, based on references in historical ...

Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician who lived between about 190 and 120 B.C. Indirect evidence suggests that he made the first star catalog that used two coordinates to uniquely ...

Researchers believe they may have found a fragment of a long-lost star map compiled by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who made the earliest known attempt to chart the entire night sky.

Here’s how it works. Until now, the closest anyone has gotten to seeing the legendary star catalog of ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus is the stone globe forever shouldered by the Farnese ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

Scholars have long known about Hipparchus’ star catalog because other ancient texts made references about it – but their searches for the document itself were unsuccessful. “The newly ...

Evidence points to the map being made by Hipparchus, the "father of scientific astronomy." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen’s star catalog, known as The Star Manual of Master Shi, is now considered the oldest star ...

Click to expand... Polaris, which we know as the North Star, is currently within 1° of the north celestial pole, which seems close enough by Hipparchus' standards. Wikipedia notes that ...