Deferent and epicycle
Deferent and epicycle The basic elements of Ptolemaic ... a planet on an epicycle with a deferent and an equant. In the Ptolemaic system ... moves along a larger circle called a deferent. Both circles rotate counterclockwise and are roughly ... epicyclic path revolves is the equant. The deferent would be considered to be centered on ... seen as mostly moving eastward along the deferent. Half of the time, the added ...
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Ptolemaic system
... a planet on an epicycle with a deferent and an equant point. According to the ... sphere which is centered on Earth (the deferent), and another sphere (the epicycle) embedded within the deferent. The epicycle rotates within the deferent, causing the planet to move closer to ... two sets of epicycles, revolving on a deferent, offset by an equant which was ...
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Heliocentrism   (translated from French)
... It reconstitutes a system then complexes the deferent ones and épicycles. Copernic thinks that the ... In the same way, the center of deferent of the planets (O m for that ... turn around a épicycle centered on their deferent. Lune , it, always turns around the Earth (with a system of épicycle and deferent). Its treaty Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium appears in ...
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Épicycle   (translated from French)
... on a épicycle which itself turns on deferent. This system makes it possible to model ... it acts of a circle centered on deferent, another circle centered on the Earth. According ... center describes a uniform movement on the deferent one. It describes one then epicycloid who ...
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Geocentrism   (translated from French)
... on a épicycle which itself turns on deferent. This system makes it possible to model ... turning them even on another wheel - called deferent - whose center is the Earth. The simultaneous ... on which turns the center of the deferent one. The Earth is, it, with symmetrical ...
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Hipparchus (astronomer)
... main circular orbit around the Earth, called deferent; see deferent and epicycle. Apollonius demonstrated that these two ... the ratio between the radius of the deferent and the epicycle: 3122+1/2 : 247 ...
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Talk:History of physics
... following a complicated sytsem of epicycles - see Deferent and epicycle page for details. Neither Ptolemy ... modified this and added links to the deferent and epicycle page which explains Ptolemy's ...
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Epicykels   (translated from Dutch)
... for Aarde turns. These fictitious job became deferent called. During twisting planeten in, twist small ... circles, the epicykels for the centre of deferent. Thus schijnbare the movement of the planets ...
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