摘要
Inhissolesurvivingtreatise,theCommentarytothePhaenomenaofEudoxusandAratus,thegreatastronomerHipparchusofBithyniarefersfourtimesto“ancient”(αρχαιοι)authors,whichheleavesunnamed.1EudoxusandAratusarenotincludedinthisreference.ThequotationscreatetheimpressionofadiversityofastronomicalauthorssubsumedbyHipparchusunderthecategoryofthe“Ancients,”butthispluralitycouldgobacktoasinglesourcethatwassometimesreferredtointhiswayinantiquity,suchastheastralcompendiumattributedtoNechepsosandPetosiris.Onemight,ofcourse,hypothesizethatHipparchusdevotedpartofhislabourstoextensiveresearchofthehistoryofastronomy.
出版日期
2018年02月12日（中国期刊网平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
