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...difference? To Newton, the evidence suggests that Ptolemy accepted the observations of an earlier astronomer, Hipparchus, without checking them against his own. Newton feels that Ptolemy may also have followed a technique used by mediocre students throughout history: he worked backward to prove the results he wanted to get, and sometimes made up his data. Whatever he did, Ptolemy got away with it for 18 centuries...
...these fires shining through tubelike breathing holes in the sky. Another citizen of Miletus, Anaximenes, believed the stars were fixed like nails to the vault of the heavens. Aristotle maintained that celestial objects were permanent, immutable and perfect. His notion so influenced Greek thought that when the astronomer Hipparchus spotted what seemed to be a new star in 134 B.C., he attributed his discovery to an omission by his predecessors. He also compiled the first accurate star map so that future sky watchers would be spared his dilemma...
...religious sect, stated his famous theorem about right triangles (the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides). After him came even greater names: Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, who estimated the circumference of the earth (about 24,000 miles), and Hipparchus, who anticipated the modern tables of sines. But to many Greeks, mathematics was also a game. They were the first to notice that adding ten consecutive odd numbers, beginning with i, is the same as multiplying ten times ten, and that adding 20 such numbers is the same as squaring...
...Greek copy ever found of the Apollo Lykeos; the bronze shield of Brasidas, captured at the Battle of Pylos in 425 B.C.; and a statue base bearing the epigram of Simonides, familiar to many a schoolboy: A marvelous great light shone for the Athenians when Harmodios and Aristogeiton slew Hipparchus...
...assassinated the tyrant Hipparchus (514 B.C.) and were in turn put to death?ED. **TIME, LETTERS, FORTUNE, Reader's Digest, House & Garden, Better Homes & Gardens, McCall's, Pathfinder, Literary Digest, New Yorker, Popular Science. ?Apparently of the "white collar" class?$5,000 a year...
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