[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c9.s2.140 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.140 The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.140 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.140](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.140) ³ The main dispute has been as to whether Hipparchus did discover the precession of the equinoxes or whether he took the discovery from the Babylonian Kidinnu (Kidenas), \*c.\* 300 B.C. I need not go into this; see P. Schnabel, \*Berossos\* pp. 237–9, and the literature in Gundel \*op. cit.\* pp. 25, 26, 98–9, 101; for later references see last note. On balance, opinion now verges toward the claim of Kidinnu. - [Previous: c9.s2.139](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.139) - [Next: c9.s2.141](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.141) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.140](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.140) · Pramāṇa