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English: The founder of the Science of Astronomy, and the most famous of the Greek astronomers. This genuine portrait of Hipparchus is based on an antique cameo found by Admiral Smyth, the British amateur astronomer, during a cruise in the Mediterranean about the year 1813, most likely at Athens or Alexandria. An outline of it is given in Chambers' 'Astronomy', Vol. III. As here presented it has been carefully enlarged by Mr. A. E. Axlund, and the deficient parts filled out by Professor See, who added the base, with inscription from Ptolemy, who praises Hipparchus as a "labor-loving and truth-loving man." |
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| Source | 'Brief Biography and Popular Account of the Unparalleled Discoveries of T.J.J. See' (1914) <https://archive.org/details/briefbiographypo00webbuoft/page/n324/mode/1up> | |||
| Author | A. E. Axlund; T. J. J. See | |||
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