Skip to main

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Término preferido

Hipparchus  

Definición

  • Hipparchus (born in Nicaea) was a Greek geographer and cartographer who was also considered to be one of the greatest astronomers of ancient times. Even though almost all his writings have been lost, his theories have been handed down by Ptolemy and Pliny the Elder. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Hipparchus]

Concepto genérico

Pertenece al grupo

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-M6RHBK00-D

Descargue este concepto: