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> Hipparchus’ lost Star Catalogue is famous in the history of science as the earliest known attempt to record accurate coordinates of many celestial objects obs
by cryptonector 3y ago
> Hipparchus’ lost Star Catalogue is famous in the history of science as the earliest known attempt to record accurate coordinates of many celestial objects observable with the naked eye.
I thought the Egyptians had star maps well before Hipparchus, and they must have done it with naked eye observations too.