Lost star catalogue found hidden on the pages of a medieval manuscript
An excerpt from the work of ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been erased and written over.
Researchers have found a long-lost star catalogue hidden on the pages of a medieval manuscript.
The erased text, copied during the 5th or 6th centuries AD, consists of excerpts from the work of the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus.
“These are the first known excerpts to come directly from
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Hipparchus’s star catalogue. They illustrate the precision of Hipparchus’s measurements,” says Victor Gysembergh, a French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) research professor, and one of the authors of the paper, published in the Journal for the History of Astronomy.
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