Hipparchus from Nikaia

Greek astronomer and geographer, between 161 and 127 B.C..

HIPPARCH is the creator of the trigonometry (»chord arithmetic«). He used chord tables for astronomical calculations for the first time.

The stereographic projection (the conformal azimuthal projection) traces back to him.

  
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