Talk:Hippalus

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As the better-known namesake of the other obscure topics, Hippalus the person should "own" the unmodified title, while the others get qualifiers. Stan 17:56, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * As a student of ancient history I fully agree ;-). But we might be prejudiced. When I tested this on Google, I found that most links pointed to the crater, not the person. Therefore I created the disambig page to preclude any fights between historians and astronomists. Paul 08:13, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Your thoughtfulness credits you, but one of the things to watch out for is that WP content is now being mirrored by hundreds of sites, so if for instance somebody makes up a list of craters and throws it into WP, without actually creating the crater article, all the mirrors will show up as hits. The astro folks have agreed to append "(crater)" to all of their creations, so as not to force hundreds of regular pages to made into disambigs, and as it happens this is one of those pages; I don't think you're going to get any fights, because the issue has already been resolved in a way that favors letting "Hippalus" by itself be about the person, with links from that article to things named after him. Stan 16:25, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Again your remarks make sence. With pain in my heart (killing my first disambig page...) I moved all the info on Hippalus (navigator) back to Hippalus... creating yet another redirect page... Paul 17:39, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hippalus and Trade on the Swahili Coast
According to a recent (2020) PBS Series on "Africa's Great Civilations," it was Hippalus who recognized the seasonal alternation of prevailing winds that allowed the growth of trade between the Swahili Coast and India and beyond. There is a 3 minute preview here: https://www.pbs.org/video/africas-great-civilizations-swahili-coast-africas-great-civilizations/#:~:text=For%20over%20a%20thousand%20years,8c%20February%2027%20on%20PBS. Hippalus is mentioned around 2:23 - 2:55. There is no transcript available, so I am copying the closed captions: "In the first century B.C., a Greek navigator named Hippalus noticed that the months between November and March, the monsoon winds blow from India towards Africa, that is southwest, then in April, miraculously, the winds would reverse so between the months of April and October, the winds blow from the Swahili coast back northeast towards India." The growth of that international trade fueled the growth of civilization along the Swahili Coast.

Should mention of the growth of civilization and trade along the Swahili coast be mentioned in the main article as an outcome of Hippalus' work? Should Hippalus be mentioned in the main article on the Swahili Coast? AdderUser (talk) 06:05, 5 June 2020 (UTC)