ochet weswere Hipparehus of Nicaea (A'parkos/; Greek: “lonpy0c, Hippatkhos;e, 90 ~e. 120 be). \was.a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician, He is eonsdered the Founder of \tigonometry, but is most famous for his ineidenal discovery of precession ofthe equinoxes ipparchus was bom in Nicaea, Bthynia (now Lenk, Turkey), and probably died onthe sland of Rhodes. Hes known to have been a working astronomer at fas rom 1620 127 be. Hipparchus is considered the greatest ancient astronomial observer and, by some, the greatest overall astronomer of antiquity. He was the first wio's quantitative and accurate modes forthe motion ofthe Sun and Moon survive. Por ths he certainly made use ofthe observations and perhaps the mathematical techniques acumulated over centuries by the Babylonians and other people from ‘Mesopotamia, He developed tigonomelry and constructed tigonometric tables, and he solved several problems of percalgonometry With his solr an Tuna theories and his trigonometry he may have been the fis to develop a reliable method to rect solar elipse. His other reputed achievements inelude the discovery’ and measurement of Earth's precession the compilation ofthe Firs comprehensive stir catalog ofthe westesn world, andl possibly the invention of the astrolabe, also of the armillary spaere, which he used during the eration of much of the star catalogue, H would be three centuries before Claudius Plolemacus! synthesis of astronomy would supersede the work of Hipparchus 45 Excellent