What was Hipparchus' most famous incidental discovery?
Theorem of Pythagoras
Precession of the equinoxes
Law of Gravity
Theory of Relativity
Answer
Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician who lived in the second century BCE. He is most famous for his incidental discovery of precession of the equinoxes. Precession is the slow change in the orientation of the Earth's axis of rotation. It causes the positions of the stars in the sky to change over time.
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