Who made the first catalog of stars and the first map of the skis?

Answer 1

The Sumerians and Egyptians certainly had star maps and catalogs, but these have been lost. The oldest star atlas that we have record of was compiled by the Greek-Egyptian astronomer Claudius Ptolemy about 2000 years ago, and his atlas survived only because it was translated into Arabic 1500 years ago, and was discovered in the libraries of Cordova and Toledo, Spain, when "El Cid" conquered the Arabs and unified Spain.

Answer 2

A Greek astronomer named Hipparchus made the first catalog of stars and the first map of the skies. He was also credited with discovering the earth moved on its axis in over the coarse of the year.

Answer 3

The earliest star catalog that we know of - that still exists, that is - was the Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy. However, it refers to earlier works, that do NOT exist any longer. So we'll probably never know who actually wrote the first one.

Answer 4

The earliest written star catalogs were made by the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians. None of that has survived to the modern era, but a Roman named Claudius Ptolemy transcribed much of what was then known about astronomy into his own works, including a classic called the Almagest. Copies of Ptolemy's books did not survive in Greece or Rome, but were discovered in the Moorish libraries of Spain, captured when the Spaniards reconquered Andalusia.

Answer 5

Star catalogs and maps are not "discovered", they are made.

Answer 6

The earliest known star catalog was the Almagest, compiled by Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek scientist who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.

Answer 7

No one has catalogued them all yet! Tycho Brahe made a lot of surprisingly good observations of stars and planets during the last half of the 1500's.

Answer 8

I guess that would be Charles Messier. Many objects are still known by their Messier Catalog number, for example, M31 for the Andromeda Galaxy.

Answer 9

Claudius Ptolemy's "Alamagest" is the earliest record of a star catalog that's even remotely correct. However, Ptolemy refers to even earlier records, which have not survived the centuries.

Answer 10

Hipparchus