Associations to the word «Hipparchus»

Wiktionary

HIPPARCHUS, proper noun. An ancient Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician.

Dictionary definition

HIPPARCHUS, noun. 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).

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin