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Discovery Of Extracts From A Lost Astronomical Catalogue By Ancient Greek Astronomer Hipparchus

Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have recently found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed by the Greek astronomer ...
East Bay Times

SLAC scientists use X-rays to search for the world’s oldest star map

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, researchers focused a powerful X-ray machine on pages of parchment from a medieval desert monastery, looking to reveal ...
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Medieval monks wrote over a copy of an ancient star catalog. Now, a particle accelerator is revealing the long-lost original text

A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western Palestinian Aramaic and Greek writing from animal-skin parchments. They replaced ...
Daily Mail

World's oldest map of the night sky is REVEALED after 2,000 years: Hipparchus' long-lost star coordinates are discovered hiding under a medieval religious text

Scientists are reconstructing the oldest known map of the night sky – long thought lost to time – by using X–rays to reveal its secrets. The map, which was created around 2,000 years ago, has spent ...
Greek Reporter

History Of Astronomy

A historian has identified Galileo's handwritten notes in a rare 16th-century copy of one of history’s most influential astronomy books. The discovery includes marginal comments and a handwritten ...