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 ...

In an article entitled “Greek Cosmogony and Astronomy”, Dr. K. Lund-mark briefly traces the development of Greek astronomy from the first indications of some primitive astronomical knowledge ...

The Greek astronomer Hipparchus is often called the "father of astronomy." He's credited with discovering the Earth's precession (how it wobbles on its axis) and calculating the motions of the Sun ...

Astronomers Recreate Ancient Skies to Date a Nearly 2,600-Year-Old Greek Poem Researchers narrow down the dates for when the lonely poet Sappho wrote “Midnight Poem” ...

The star catalog was made by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 162 and 127 BCE, 1,400 years before the telescope.

Ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, illustrated in his observatory in Alexandria, Egypt, was thought to have written the first star catalog. Now researchers have found part of it hidden in a ...

Books Received Published: 22 July 1933 (1) Greek Astronomy (2) Early Astronomy and Cosmology: a Reconstruction of the Earliest Cosmic System E. J. WEBB Nature 132, 119–120 (1933) Cite this article ...

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Bernard R. Goldstein, Alan C. Bowen, The Introduction of Dated Observations and Precise Measurement in Greek Astronomy, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 43, No. 2 (1991), pp. 93-132 ...

In the case of one poem, written over 2,500 years ago by the Greek poet Sappho, scientists think they can pinpoint the time to early spring somewhere in ancient Greece.

Archivists have uncovered a long-lost historical relic hidden underneath a Christian manuscript: the earliest known map of the stars, according to the Museum of the Bible.