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Noun: Hipparchus  hi'paa(r)-kus
  1. 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)

Type of: astronomer, mathematician, stargazer, uranologist

Encyclopedia: Hipparchus