Hipparchus

Where was Hipparchus born?

• Nicaea, Greece

• Athens, Greece

• Sparta, Greece

• Crete, Greece

True of False? Hipparchus was Heliocentric

• True

• False

Fill in the blank. Hipparchus was "a great ______ of truth"

• Leader

• Lover

• Example

• Believer

Select ALL of Hipparchus' achievements

• The length of the year

• Star catalog

• Astrolabe

• Distance between the Earth and Moon

What is Hipparchus most well known for?

• Star catalog

• Lunar eclipses

• Precession of the Equinoxes

• Length of the year

True or False? We still have the original star catalog

• True

• False

Which astronomer did Hipparchus have the biggest impact on?

• Coppernicus

• Galileo Galilei

• Kepler

• Ptolemy

What was Hipparchus' biggest impact on Rome?

• Ptolemy

• Star catalog

• Precession of the Equinoxes

• The light year

Who mapped out 1,000 + stars?

• Ptolemy

• Hipparchus

What did Hipparchus suspect about stars?

• They stayed in the same place

• The got smaller

• They got bigger

• They moved around