Who called Hipparchus the "father of astronomy"?
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
Albert Einstein
Answer
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, a French astronomer, mathematician, and historian of science, is credited with being the first person to call Hipparchus the "father of astronomy". In his 1792 work Astronomie ancienne, Delambre argued that Hipparchus was the first person to make systematic observations of the stars and planets, and that his work laid the foundation for modern astronomy.
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