Hipparchus and the equinoxes
As with so many of the Greek astronomers who got the science going more than 2,000 years ago, we know little more than the basics about the life of Hipparchus. Evidence suggests he was born in Nicaea in modern Turkey around 190 BCE and died in Rhodes some 70 years later, but that is about all.
Likewise we a few centuries later was based on and extended upon the work of Hipparchus.
