First known map of night sky found hidden in Medieval parchment

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pabloa avatar
I don't know if the forum is a place for sharing such news but I thought that this one could interest many amateurs here:

"A medieval parchment from a monastery in Egypt has yielded a surprising treasure. Hidden beneath Christian texts, scholars have discovered what seems to be part of the long-lost star catalogue of the astronomer Hipparchus — believed to be the earliest known attempt to map the entire sky."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03296-1

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Pablo
Well Written Concise Engaging
Michael avatar
Thank you for sharing, quite intriguing.