In the 100s BC, Hipparchus, the most important Greek astronomer of his time, calculated the comparative brightness of as many as 1,000 different stars. He also calculated the Moon's distance from the Earth.
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Hipparchus
/hɪˈpɑɹkəs/
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greek scholar
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