Hipparchus lived from 190 B.C. to 120 B.C. He was a heliocentric. Hipparchus improved the accuracy of the lunar calendar. He invented the chord table to find where stars were in the skys. Hipparchus also discovered the precession of the equinoxes. He made a catalogue of over 850 stars, after he discovered a new star in 134 B.C
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