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Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

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If their results prove to be true, it would mean that Shi’s Star Catalog is centuries older than the other first place contender—the one created by Greek astronomer Hipparchus. But not ...

For centuries, despite this document being the oldest surviving catalog of stars in China, the star catalog of ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus (dated to 130 B.C.) was thought to be older.

A 19th-century artist's portrait of Hipparchus, a Greek astronomer who made one of the world's oldest star maps Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Over thousands ...

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in China over two thousand three hundred years ago, dating back to 355 BCE ...

Until now, the Hipparchus star catalogue from Greece has been recognised as the world’s oldest, believed to have been created in the 2nd century BC.

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This defined the ratio between objects differing by one magnitude as 2.512, approximately, setting a mathematical standard that preserved Hipparchus’ original catalog system.