Hipparchus' coordinate system

DOI10.1007/S004070200050MaRDI QIDQ1862865zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dennis W. Duke

Publication date 30 November 2003

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s004070200050

zbMATH Keywords

celestial spherical coordinatesHipparchus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

Review text

The author shows convincingly that J. B. J. Delambre (1817) was right in attributing to Hipparchus the use of celestial spherical coordinates and that \textit{O. Neugebauer}, on pp. 277-280 of [`A history of ancient mathematical astronomy. Vol. I. New York: Springer (1975; Zbl 0323.01002)] was wrong in denying this fact.

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