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HIPPARCHUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)
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Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)
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