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new fragments from Hipparchus’ star catalog...

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The new fragments from Hipparchus’ star catalog and the mathematization of the ancient astral sciences
09.02.2023 by Victor Gysembergh (Léon Robin Research Center on Ancient Thought, CNRS)

The discovery of fragments from Hipparchus’ star catalog
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.117 ... 6221128289
sheds new light on a major development of positional astronomy. Hipparchus of Nicaea was a Greek astronomer active in the Eastern Mediterranean (likely in Rhodes and Nicaea) in the second century BCE. Based on ancient reports, he has long been thought to have composed the first catalog of stars to include precise numerical coordinates, representing a major step towards the mathematization of the ancient astral sciences as compared to previous qualitative descriptions of stellar positions.

In Volume 53, Issue 4 of the Journal for the History of Astronomy,Peter Williams of Tyndale House, Emanuel Zingg of Sorbonne Université and I have published new fragments of that catalogue from a palimpsest manuscript known as the Codex Climaci rescriptus. This was made possible by multispectral imaging of the palimpsest, performed by a team from the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library, the Lazarus Project of the University of Rochester, and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/zodiacblog/2 ... -sciences/
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