Épicycle   (translated from French)
Épicycle For Aristote , the Earth is the center of the world and the only movement acceptable for the heavenly objects is a uniform circular motion. It is what one calls it geocentrism , concept which had course until E century . The planets turn on a épicycle which itself turns on deferent. This ...
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Epicycle   (translated from Russian)
Epicycle Epitsi?kl - the additional circle, described by ... near the basic orbit. The concept of epicycle appeared within the framework of the development ... planets. The introduction of the concept of epicycle from one side, it made it possible ...
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Epicycle   (translated from Spanish)
Epicycle In the system ptolomeico of astronomía , based ...
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Deferent and epicycle
Deferent and epicycle The basic elements of Ptolemaic astronomy, showing a planet on an epicycle with a deferent and an equant. In the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, the epicycle (literally: on the circle in Greek) was ... move in a small circle, called an epicycle, which in turn moves along a larger ... the time, the added motion along the epicycle was eastward, in parallel with the ...
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Talk:Deferent and epicycle
Talk:Deferent and epicycle I ran across someone elsewhere (slashdot) mentioning ... equivalent to the following: we add one epicycle on another one. However, it's not ...
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Hipparchus (astronomer)
... on a secondary circular orbit, called an epicycle, that itself would move uniformly (with some ... the Earth, called deferent; see deferent and epicycle. Apollonius demonstrated that these two models were ... this separately for the eccentric and the epicycle model. Ptolemy describes the details in the ... and 12/13 December 382 BC. The epicycle model he fitted to lunar eclipse observations ... 3144 : 327+2/3 ; and for the epicycle model, the ratio between the radius ...
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User:Sj/scraps
... on Wheels (Talk) * (undo) (hist) . . Deferent and epicycle moved to Deferent and epicycle is Jewish; 00:45 . . Willy on Wheels (Talk) * (undo) (hist) . . Talk:Deferent and epicycle moved to Talk:Deferent and epicycle is Jewish; 00:45 . . Willy on Wheels ...
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Ptolemaic system
... Ptolemaic astronomy, showing a planet on an epicycle with a deferent and an equant point ... Earth (the deferent), and another sphere (the epicycle) embedded within the deferent. The epicycle rotates within the deferent, causing the planet ... watch, the center of the planet's epicycle would always appear to move at the ...
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Heliocentrism   (translated from French)
Heliocentrism Macrocosmica Harmonized (Andreas Cellarius 1708 ) heliocentrism is a design of Univers which places it Soleil in its center. In spite of some precursors, like Aristarque de Samos, one in general allots the principle of the heliocentrism to Copernic . Its results were supplemented by Kepler and Galilée . The idea that the ...
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