Picture of Hipparchus
Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer who lived between 190-120 B.C. He is considered the father of trigonometry, a branch of mathematics which studies the angles of sides of triangles.
Hipparchus also developed the first accurate star map. It included over 850 stars, as well as descriptions of their brightness.
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