Search Results: Epicycle


Deferent and epicycle
Minggu, 2026-04-05 05:27:51

In the Hipparchian, Ptolemaic, and Copernican systems of astronomy, the epicycle (from Ancient Greek ἐπίκυκλος (epíkuklos) 'upon the circle', meaning "circle...

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Epicyclic gearing
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 08:23:29

standard epicyclic gearing. Around 500 BC, the Greeks invented the idea of epicycles, of circles travelling on circular orbits. With this theory Claudius Ptolemy...

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Geocentrism
Rabu, 2026-05-13 01:34:20

line to the right. A given planet then moves around the epicycle at the same time the epicycle moves along the path marked by the deferent. These combined...

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Epicycloid
Selasa, 2025-10-28 12:47:08

the path of a chosen point on the circumference of a circle—called an epicycle—which rolls without slipping around a fixed circle. It is a particular...

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Science
Selasa, 2026-06-02 07:41:20

the other planets orbiting around it in circular motions, modified by epicycles, and at uniform speeds. The Copernican model challenged the dominant geocentric...

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Copernican heliocentrism
Senin, 2026-05-18 01:46:37

and the other planets orbiting around it in circular paths, modified by epicycles, and at uniform speeds. The Copernican model challenged the geocentric...

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Equant
Selasa, 2026-02-03 03:01:40

equant point, the epicycle's center (indicated by the small · ) would appear to move at a steady angular speed. However, the epicycle's center will not...

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Ancient Greek astronomy
Selasa, 2026-04-14 08:04:10

Archimedes, with knowledge of epicycles and eccentrics, and the Antikythera mechanism also appears to presuppose eccentrics and epicycles in the way it produces...

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Albert Brudzewski
Rabu, 2026-05-13 07:20:42

previously done by Sandivogius of Czechel, Brudzewski added a secondary epicycle to explain the motion of the Moon. Brudzewski also considered that the...

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Celestial spheres
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:23:59

sphere above it and the sphere below. When scholars applied Ptolemy's epicycles, they presumed that each planetary sphere was exactly thick enough to...

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Gyða Valtýsdóttir
Rabu, 2025-09-24 04:14:42

Like a Peasant. 2013 Serenade Vapour 7” 2016 Epicycle 2018 Evolution 2018 MIKHEL (soundtrack) 2020 Epicycle II 2021 Ox 1999 Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today...

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Shani
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 14:24:36

versions disagree in their measurements of Shani's revolutions, apogee, epicycles, nodal longitudes, orbital inclination, and other parameters. For example...

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Brihaspati
Jumat, 2026-05-29 22:12:08

their data, in their measurements of Brihaspati's revolutions, apogee, epicycles, nodal longitudes, orbital inclination, and other parameters. For example...

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Aryabhatiya
Selasa, 2026-04-14 07:37:15

the planets are each governed by two epicycles, a smaller manda (slow) epicycle and a larger śīghra (fast) epicycle. It has been suggested by some commentators...

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Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:13:51

astronomical data of Tycho Brahe. These laws replaced the circular orbits and epicycles of Copernicus's heliostatic model of the planets with a heliocentric model...

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Ptolemy
Kamis, 2026-05-21 02:19:53

realization of the universe as a set of nested spheres, in which he used the epicycles of his planetary model to compute the dimensions of the universe. He estimated...

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Jupiter
Kamis, 2026-06-04 19:41:22

Ptolemaeus constructed a geocentric planetary model based on deferents and epicycles to explain Jupiter's motion relative to Earth, giving its orbital period...

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Astronomy
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 14:31:19

University Press. p. 3. Forbes 1909, Book 2, chapter 4: The Reign of Epicycles—From Ptolemy to Copernicus Forbes 1909, Book 2, chapter 6: Galileo and...

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Rhythmite
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 10:03:41

A rhythmite consists of layers of sediment or sedimentary rock which are laid down with an obvious periodicity and regularity. They may be created by annual...

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Inferior and superior planets
Selasa, 2026-04-14 18:21:26

Ptolemy to differentiate as inferior those planets (Mercury and Venus) whose epicycle remained co-linear with the Earth and Sun, and as superior those planets...

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Dynamics of the celestial spheres
Selasa, 2024-08-27 21:36:16

out motive emissions that direct its own motion and the motions of the epicycle and deferent that make up its system, just as a bird sends out emissions...

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Ibn al-Shatir
Kamis, 2025-10-09 22:19:19

the center of the larger circle from the Earth) by introducing an extra epicycle (the Tusi-couple), departing from the Ptolemaic system in a way that was...

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Fourier analysis
Rabu, 2026-04-29 22:49:37

concepts of deferent and epicycle in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy were related to Fourier series (see Deferent and epicycle § Mathematical formalism)...

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Hipparchus
Rabu, 2026-05-27 19:19:04

Earth): 3144 : 327+2⁄3; and for the epicycle model, the ratio between the radius of the deferent and the epicycle: 3122+1⁄2 : 247+1⁄2 . These figures...

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Lunar theory
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 02:04:54

deferent, carrying an epicycle along which the Moon was assumed to move in a retrograde direction. The center of the epicycle moved at a rate corresponding...

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Tide
Kamis, 2026-05-28 11:52:08

equation with A(t) where A is another sinusoid, similar to the cycles and epicycles of Ptolemaic theory. This gives A ( t ) = A o ( 1 + A a cos ⁡ ( ω a t...

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Nityayoga
Kamis, 2025-09-25 06:40:31

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Globe
Selasa, 2026-05-19 06:23:36

reflected geocentric models, such as Ptolemy’s 2nd-century system using epicycles and equants to explain planetary motion. Medieval astronomers, influenced...

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Islamic Golden Age
Senin, 2026-06-01 20:57:49

around the Earth. Ptolemy thought that the planets moved on circles called epicycles and that their centers rode on deferents. The deferents were eccentric...

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Commentariolus
Selasa, 2025-07-22 13:48:30

Earth in a period of one month, and moves with it around the Sun like an epicycle. This section explains how the apparent motion of the Sun could arise from...

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Differential steering
Minggu, 2025-09-21 09:02:41

is transmitted through a single main transmission and then through an epicycle gear final drive on each side. A different drive speed is caused by feeding...

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Almagest
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 19:50:32

of the precession of the equinoxes and begins explaining the theory of epicycles. Books IV and V cover the motion of the Moon, lunar parallax, the motion...

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Ecliptic
Kamis, 2026-05-14 11:51:53

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Nicolaus Copernicus
Senin, 2026-06-01 17:35:27

theory of homocentric spheres, and Ptolemy's mechanism of eccentrics and epicycles—the surmounting and discarding of which would be the first step toward...

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Chandra
Senin, 2026-02-09 13:10:52

where m is the Moon's mean longitude, a is the longitude at apogee, P is epicycle of apsis, R=3438'. Besides worship in Navagraha temples, Chandra is also...

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Astronomia nova
Senin, 2026-05-18 17:59:27

any planet are also the same in all three models. This is so because the epicycle in the geocentric model plays the same role as the orbit of the Earth in...

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Vicarious Hypothesis
Rabu, 2026-02-04 18:35:35

which carried smaller, rotating circles called epicycles. Planets rotated on the epicycles as the epicycles traveled along the deferent. Ptolemy shifted...

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List of planet types
Rabu, 2026-06-03 08:08:58

to differentiate as 'inferior' those planets (Mercury and Venus) whose epicycle remained collinear with Earth and the Sun, compared to the 'superior' planets...

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Kjartan Sveinsson
Jumat, 2025-03-07 04:01:17

January 2009. BWW News Desk (30 June 2020). "Gyda Valtysdottir Releases Epicycle II August 28". BroadwayWorld.com. Broadway World. Retrieved 23 July 2020...

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The Will to Believe
Kamis, 2026-01-08 11:39:25

and become more and more difficult to express in its language. Epicycle upon epicycle of subsidiary hypothesis will have to be invoked to give to the...

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Ad hoc hypothesis
Senin, 2025-10-20 02:52:10

theories of dark energy. Ad hoc Fringe science Russell's teapot Deferent and epicycle § Bad science No true Scotsman Special pleading The Structure of Scientific...

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Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
Rabu, 2026-06-03 12:25:49

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Epitrochoid
Kamis, 2026-05-28 18:27:16

paths of planets in the once popular geocentric system of deferents and epicycles are epitrochoids with d > r , {\displaystyle d>r,} for both the outer...

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Apparent retrograde motion
Jumat, 2026-03-27 20:32:09

retrograde motion was explained by having the planets travel in deferents and epicycles. It was not understood to be an illusion until the time of Copernicus...

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Axial tilt
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 00:16:47

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Mercury (planet)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 14:59:32

al-Shatir's model for the appearances of Mercury, showing the multiplication of epicycles using the Tusi couple, thus eliminating the Ptolemaic eccentrics and equant...

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Nostalgia
Jumat, 2026-06-05 11:06:54

nostalgia cycle. Various durations of this cycle have been alleged, including epicycles (i.e., nostalgia for the last nostalgia cycle). It has been said that...

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Giordano Bruno
Minggu, 2026-05-31 02:06:06

orbits of the planets were composed of perfect circles—deferents and epicycles—and that the stars were fixed on a stationary outer sphere. Despite the...

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Teacups
Minggu, 2025-07-13 22:12:03

manufacturers and amusement parks would install their own versions. Ptolemy's epicycle model of the Solar System has been likened by physicists to the spinning-teacups...

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Historical models of the Solar System
Rabu, 2025-12-10 19:10:07

eccentrics and another deferent and epicycles. The latter will be a key feature for future models. The epicycle is described as a small orbit within...

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Orbit
Senin, 2026-05-18 00:10:17

more accurately measured, theoretical mechanisms such as deferent and epicycles were added by Ptolemy. Although the model was capable of reasonably accurately...

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Duodecet
Selasa, 2026-04-28 23:12:13

and cello (1952; arr. of 1920 work for string quartet) Iannis Xenakis. Epicycle, for solo cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba,...

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History of Europe
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 04:04:30

eliminated all of Ptolemy's major epicycles, merging them all into the Earth's orbit, he then introduced a series of little epicycles to replace the equant, one...

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Makarandasarini
Minggu, 2026-04-19 19:26:11

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Ibn al-Haytham
Selasa, 2026-06-02 02:45:41

celestial motions are uniformly circular, which required the inclusion of epicycles to explain observed motion, but he managed to eliminate Ptolemy's equant...

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Planet
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:05:30

generally accepted geocentrism, although they did dispute Ptolemy's system of epicycles and sought alternatives. The 10th-century astronomer Abu Sa'id al-Sijzi...

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List of classical piano duos (performers)
Jumat, 2026-03-06 22:28:39

Kerr Jr., Concert Scherzo: Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?; Stella Sung: Epicycles. Angela Cheng Alvin Chow Caroline Clemmow Anthony Goldstone Goldstone...

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List of cosmologists
Minggu, 2026-01-18 05:59:36

centuries Aryabhata (476–550) described a geocentric model with slow and fast epicycles Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787–886) conveyed Aristotle's...

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Planetarium
Senin, 2026-01-05 18:13:24

central axis, and is aimed by a guide which is steered by a deferent and an epicycle (or whatever the planetarium maker calls them). Here Ptolemy's number values...

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Brocard points
Kamis, 2025-11-06 11:07:11

to circles. The three circles just constructed are also designated as epicycles of △ABC. The second Brocard point is constructed in similar fashion. Homogeneous...

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Timeline of computing before 1950
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 13:30:37

the planetary deferents on a single plate, and a second plate bears the epicycles. c. 1150 Arab astronomer, Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber), may have invented or...

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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Kamis, 2026-04-23 05:45:55

Autolycus of Pitane. Astronomers responded by introducing the deferent and epicycle, which caused a planet to vary its distance. However, Eudoxus's importance...

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Wheel of Fortune (medieval)
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 21:58:13

Ptolemaic model of the spheres for Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with epicycle, eccentric deferent and equant point. Georg von Peuerbach, Theoricae novae...

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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Jumat, 2026-05-29 04:36:50

the need for deferents and epicycles abolished. In his work, Copernicus "used conventional, hypothetical devices like epicycles...as all astronomers had...

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Equation of time
Rabu, 2026-06-03 02:10:00

equation of the centre, the equation of the equinoxes, the equation of the epicycle). Gerald J. Toomer uses the medieval term "equation", from the Latin aequātiō...

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Budha
Jumat, 2026-05-29 22:11:08

texts vary slightly in their measurements of Budha's revolutions, apogee, epicycles, nodal longitudes, orbital inclination, and other parameters. Scholars...

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Law of sines
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 07:17:14

method for finding the distance between the Earth and a planet following an epicycle; however, Brahmagupta never treated the law of sines as an independent...

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Aryabhata
Senin, 2026-05-25 09:00:52

model of the Solar System, in which the Sun and Moon are each carried by epicycles. They in turn revolve around the Earth. In this model, which is also found...

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Mu'ayyad al-Din al-Urdi
Rabu, 2026-05-06 02:50:00

allowed an equant in an astronomic model to be replaced with an equivalent epicycle that moved around a deferent centered at half the distance to the equant...

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Copernican Revolution
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 16:14:19

eliminated all of Ptolemy's major epicycles, merging them all into the Earth's orbit, he then introduced a series of little epicycles to replace the equant, one...

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Nicholas Kollerstrom
Minggu, 2026-04-05 02:20:59

the History of Astronomy, 26, pp. 237–246. (1996) "'A Reintroduction of Epicycles': Newton's 1702 Lunar Theory and Halley's Saros Correction", Quarterly...

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Kevin Tihista
Senin, 2026-01-12 21:12:24

collaboration between Tihista and brothers Tom and Ellis Clark of the band "Epicycle." Kevin Tihista was born in Walnut Creek, CA in the San Francisco Bay area...

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Averroes
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:18:02

system using philosophical arguments and rejects the use of eccentrics and epicycles to explain the apparent motions of the Moon, the Sun and the planets....

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Antikythera mechanism
Senin, 2026-06-01 01:44:06

apparent construction date of the mechanism—carried forward with more epicycles, and was more accurate predicting the positions of planets than the view...

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Jantar Mantar, New Delhi
Senin, 2026-03-30 02:46:00

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Śaṅkaranārāyaṇa
Selasa, 2026-05-19 06:31:19

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Orbit of the Moon
Kamis, 2026-05-28 15:11:23

Ptolemy described lunar motion by using a well-defined geometric model of epicycles and evection. The relation of the Moon, Earth and Sun has been studied...

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Vidyamadhava
Minggu, 2026-03-22 23:25:18

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Letters on Sunspots
Sabtu, 2025-10-25 22:24:47

or Mercury; but according to Galileo these 'orbs', like deferents and epicycles, were only theoretical devices of 'pure astronomers' and not actual physical...

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Johannes Kepler
Senin, 2026-05-25 15:23:07

heliocentric system in this book, he resorted to Ptolemaic devices (viz., epicycles and eccentric circles) in order to explain the change in planets' orbital...

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Jumat, 2026-05-29 17:12:14

familiar with, namely the cycles and epicycles of the Ptolemaic toolbox. Yet Copernicus' model needed more cycles and epicycles than existed in the then-current...

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Jantar Mantar, Ujjain
Minggu, 2025-03-30 14:43:00

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Cosmology
Kamis, 2026-06-04 01:49:38

universe) Universe orbits around a stationary Earth. Planets move in circular epicycles, each having a center that moved in a larger circular orbit (called an...

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Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics
Selasa, 2026-04-28 08:17:33

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Khandakhadyaka
Kamis, 2024-12-19 20:29:11

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Jacques du Chevreul
Kamis, 2026-05-14 05:32:35

Plato to reject the Copernican model and instead created his own eccentric-epicycle geocentric model of the universe. Du Chevreul believed that the Earth was...

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Timeline of Solar System astronomy
Minggu, 2026-04-12 19:36:07

the geocentric model), one using eccentrics and another deferent and epicycles.[failed verification] c. 200 BCE – Eratosthenes determines that the radius...

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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/C
Rabu, 2025-03-05 03:57:43

cycloid, cyclone, cyclops, cyclosis, cyclotomic, dicyclic, eccyclema, epicycle, epicycloid, hemicycle, hemicyclium, heterocyclic, homocyclic, hypercycle...

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Indian mathematics
Jumat, 2026-05-22 02:31:32

"On the Greek Origin of the Indian Planetary Model Employing a Double Epicycle", Journal of Historical Astronomy, 2 (1): 80–85, Bibcode:1971JHA.....2...

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Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 06:16:47

continue his work and prove his theory, using a geocentric model and epicycles. Piast turns down the offer, having an inkling of doubt after an expected...

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Fixed stars
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:24:26

computation. Around 130 AD, Ptolemy adopted Apollonius' epicycles in his geocentric model. Epicycles are described as an orbit within an orbit. For example...

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Georg von Peuerbach
Jumat, 2026-02-13 22:03:37

world. Similar models for the planets replaced the body of the sun with an epicycle sphere carrying each planet. Peuerbach ideas replaced Theorica Planetarum...

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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Senin, 2026-04-13 14:00:02

sometimes go fast, sometimes slow, and sometimes backwards, by means of vast epicycles. Mars, above the Sun's sphere, often falls far below it, then soars above...

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Science in the Renaissance
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 22:31:13

astronomers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance did not resort to "epicycles on epicycles" in order to correct the original Ptolemaic models—until one comes...

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History of science
Jumat, 2026-05-29 05:53:34

the other planets orbiting around it in circular motions, modified by epicycles, and at uniform speeds. The Copernican model challenged the dominant geocentric...

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Fourier series
Kamis, 2026-06-04 04:23:43

proposed an empiric model of planetary motions, based on deferents and epicycles. Independently of Fourier, astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel introduced...

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Astrology and astronomy
Rabu, 2026-06-03 01:42:16

accepted by Aristotle. This model generally lasted until Ptolemy, who added epicycles to explain the retrograde motion of Mars. (Around 250 BC, Aristarchus...

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Al-Zarqali
Minggu, 2025-12-07 05:49:51

of the deferent moves on a secondary epicycle, al-Zarqālī noted that the path of the center of the primary epicycle is not a circle, as it is for the other...

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Jónsi
Rabu, 2026-05-20 04:26:49

Morph II "Exhale" Shiver "Swill" "Evol Lamina" (with Gyða Valtýsdóttir) Epicycle II "Cannibal" (featuring Elizabeth Fraser) Shiver "Cul de sac" (with Trayer...

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The Imports
Senin, 2026-02-09 16:10:38

and/or new wave music bands such as Bohemia, C*nts, Da!, the Dadistics, Epicycle, the Ferraris, Heavy Manners, the Men, Naked Raygun, the Oil Tasters (from...

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Bernard of Verdun
Selasa, 2023-03-21 18:53:40

(Tractatus super totam astrologiam), in which he defended Ptolemy's theory of epicycles and eccentrics against al-Bitruji's system of homocentric spheres. Contrary...

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Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity
Senin, 2025-12-15 03:19:15

idea is to be found in ancient writers who used sundials and Ptolemaic epicycles to illustrate the divine order of the world. These types of examples can...

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Stellar dynamics
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 06:50:15

speed V cir {\displaystyle V_{\text{cir}}} and the vertical and radial epicycle frequencies to be given by ( R ω ) 2 ≡ V cir 2 = [ ( 1 + R 0 / z 0 ) G...

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Gersonides
Rabu, 2026-04-15 15:26:35

Ne'eman argued that after Gersonides reviewed Ptolemy's model with its epicycles he realized that it could be checked, by measuring the changes in the...

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Indian astronomy
Jumat, 2026-03-27 17:10:39

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Tithi
Kamis, 2026-02-26 00:06:24

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Mathematical physics
Minggu, 2026-05-24 10:54:27

the Ptolemaic idea of epicycles, and merely sought to simplify astronomy by constructing simpler sets of epicyclic orbits. Epicycles consist of circles upon...

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Jain units of time
Sabtu, 2025-10-18 05:01:40

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Paradiso
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:21:46

VIII): The world, when still in peril, thought that, wheeling, in the third epicycle, Cyprian the fair sent down her rays of frenzied love, ... and gave the...

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Shen Kuo
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:41:30

the retarded phase. Shen's hypotheses were similar to the concept of the epicycle in the Greco-Roman tradition, only Shen compared the side-section of orbital...

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Pasquale's Angel
Selasa, 2026-05-19 18:27:05

Initially imperfect, as they required a series of artificial adjustments (epicycles) to be applied to the movement of celestial bodies. That is, according...

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Zhang Heng
Selasa, 2026-05-05 04:05:20

motion as fundamental and then used the circular motion of deferents and epicycles in his earth-centered theory. Although Zhang Heng understood that the...

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Hindu units of time
Kamis, 2026-04-09 18:15:54

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Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world
Kamis, 2026-03-26 16:15:29

proposed a theory on planetary motion in which he wished to avoid both epicycles and eccentrics. He was unsuccessful in replacing Ptolemy's planetary model...

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Heliocentrism
Jumat, 2026-06-05 11:57:25

as found in Arabic sources. The exact replacement of the equant by two epicycles used by Copernicus in the Commentariolus was found in an earlier work...

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Ephemeris
Senin, 2026-05-25 03:52:29

apparent retrograde motion of planets), it still relied on the use of epicycles, leading to some inaccuracies – for example, periodic errors in the position...

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Pierre Duhem
Jumat, 2026-06-05 10:05:43

motivated by the thinking of Thomas Aquinas, who wrote concerning the epicycles and eccentrics of classical astronomy that Reason may be employed in two...

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Tusi couple
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:47:00

produce a reciprocating linear motion of a planet along the radius of its epicycle. Oresme's description is unclear and it is not certain whether this represents...

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Timeline of cosmological theories
Kamis, 2026-06-04 01:59:51

eccentrics and another deferent and epicycles. The latter will be a key feature for future models. The epicycle is described as a small orbit within...

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Panchangam
Jumat, 2025-02-07 01:59:33

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Legacy of the Roman Empire
Minggu, 2026-05-31 00:27:43

Ptolemy's refined geocentric theory of epicycles was backed up by rigorous mathematics and detailed astronomical observations. It was not overturned until...

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Trésor de la langue française
Kamis, 2026-01-29 13:40:39

Désobstruer-Épicurisme, XXIII-1343 ISBN 2-222-02383-1 1980 : vol. 8 - Épicycle-Fuyard, XIX-1364 ISBN 2-222-02670-9 1981 : vol. 9 - G-Incarner, XVIII-1338...

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Sandivogius of Czechel
Selasa, 2025-08-26 22:47:36

Planetarium from the 13th century. In his commentary, he proposed to use two epicycles to correct the orbit of the Moon in the geocentric model. A similar model...

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Counter-Earth
Kamis, 2026-02-19 07:28:07

cycle Celestial spheres Circle of latitude Counter-Earth Deferent and epicycle Equant Geocentrism Heliocentrism Hipparchic cycle Inferior and superior...

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Nakshatra
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 01:27:57

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Jantar Mantar
Senin, 2025-12-08 19:01:47

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Surya Siddhanta
Selasa, 2026-04-21 23:56:40

"On the Greek Origin of the Indian Planetary Model Employing a Double Epicycle". Journal for the History of Astronomy. 2 (2). SAGE Publications: 80–85...

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Equatorium
Rabu, 2026-05-27 00:20:57

equatorium can further be specialized depending on the epicycle. There are three possible epicycles that can be adjusted to serve for planetary positions...

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Apollonius of Perga
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:09:21

descriptions of planet motions, one using eccentrics and another deferent and epicycles, is attributed to Apollonius. Ptolemy describes this equivalence in the...

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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A–G
Selasa, 2026-05-12 23:26:58

cycloid, cyclone, cyclops, cyclosis, cyclotomic, dicyclic, eccyclema, epicycle, epicycloid, hemicycle, hemicyclium, heterocyclic, homocyclic, hypercycle...

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Varāhamihira
Jumat, 2026-05-22 10:09:18

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Newton's theorem of revolving orbits
Rabu, 2026-05-27 22:44:11

of Perga (c. 262 – c. 190 BC) developed the concept of deferents and epicycles, according to which the planets are carried on rotating circles that are...

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Jyeshtha (month)
Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:51:36

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Penning trap
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 02:12:13

\omega _{+}} frequencies. These motions are similar to the deferent and epicycle, respectively, of the Ptolemaic model of the solar system. The sum of these...

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Philosophy of science
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 18:53:22

For Kuhn, the addition of epicycles in Ptolemaic astronomy was "normal science" within a paradigm, whereas the Copernican Revolution was a paradigm shift...

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Shravana (month)
Selasa, 2026-04-21 13:30:54

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Vedanga Jyotisha
Senin, 2026-05-11 18:26:48

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Isaac ibn al-Ahdab
Rabu, 2025-05-28 10:12:55

equatorium of his own invention, functioning on the Ptolemaic theory of epicycles, and Keli Memutsa (Intermediate Instrument), which describes another unique...

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Celestial mechanics
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:48:54

around the galaxy. Perturbations in a star's galactic orbit result in epicycle motions. The cosmic microwave background has its own co-moving frame of...

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Definition of planet
Selasa, 2026-04-14 18:21:21

University Press, 1974), page 450. "every planet except the sun has an epicycle." Anonymous, "The Theory of the Planets," in Edward Grant, ed. A Source...

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Vāra (astronomy)
Kamis, 2025-09-25 06:41:05

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Phalguna
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 19:46:44

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Phases of Venus
Sabtu, 2026-01-17 16:56:37

as predicted by Copernicus's heliocentric model, without the need for epicycles as predicted with Kepler's model of elliptical orbits and disproved Ptolemy's...

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Avempace
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:17:54

have heard that Abu Bakr [Ibn Bajja] discovered a system in which no epicycles occur, but eccentric spheres are not excluded by him. I have not heard...

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Kali ahargana
Senin, 2026-06-01 07:27:19

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List of mathematical shapes
Selasa, 2026-06-02 03:59:31

quadrilateral Cycloid Epitrochoid Epicycloid Cardioid Nephroid Deferent and epicycle Ex-tangential quadrilateral Horocycle Hypotrochoid Hypocycloid Astroid...

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J. Michael Clarke
Rabu, 2025-12-10 08:59:54

Festival in Belfast. A CD of four of his works (Refractions, Mälarsång, Epicycle and Uppvaknande) is available under the collective title Refractions (MPSCD003)...

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Kartika (month)
Rabu, 2025-11-12 16:43:37

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Jewish cosmology
Selasa, 2026-02-24 14:38:09

is responsible for daily motion. Maimonides' model incorporated both epicycles and other complex celestial motions derived from Ancient Greek astronomy...

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History of astronomy
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:01:19

which an eccentric circle would carry around a smaller circle, called an epicycle which in turn carried around a planet. The first such model is attributed...

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Timeline of astronomy
Jumat, 2026-04-10 23:00:52

follow elliptical orbits, the Sun and the Moon revolve around the Earth in epicycles. He also writes that the planets and the Moon do not have their own light...

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Ashadha
Senin, 2026-02-09 11:19:30

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Analemma
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 16:36:52

framework of rings De architectura – Treatise on architecture by Vitruvius Epicycle – Planetary motions in archaic models of the Solar SystemPages displaying...

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Science and the Catholic Church
Minggu, 2026-05-31 00:22:30

eliminated all of Ptolemy's major epicycles, merging them all into the Earth's orbit, he then introduced a series of little epicycles to replace the equant, one...

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Glossary of aerospace engineering
Jumat, 2026-04-24 09:06:21

heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus, replacing its circular orbits and epicycles with elliptical trajectories, and explaining how planetary velocities...

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Bhadrapada
Minggu, 2026-05-24 22:34:01

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Kamis, 2026-01-15 04:42:13

altogether forty-eight epicycles - if I counted them correctly. Moreover, Copernicus had exaggerated the number of epicycles in the Ptolemaic system...

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William Paley
Senin, 2026-03-09 16:31:59

idea is to be found in ancient writers who used sundials and Ptolemaic epicycles to illustrate the divine order of the world. These types of examples can...

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Timeline of scientific discoveries
Selasa, 2026-06-02 20:54:38

Perga assigns equations to curves. 200 BC: Apollonius of Perga develops epicycles. While an incorrect model, it was a precursor to the development of Fourier...

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Pathani Samanta
Senin, 2026-05-18 19:47:53

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Vaishakha
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 07:26:02

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Alfonsine tables
Jumat, 2025-12-19 00:45:56

34 circles has been taken to imply that a large number of additional epicycles had been subsequently introduced into the Ptolemaic system in an attempt...

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Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
Senin, 2026-05-11 10:28:31

explain the complex motions of the planets, a device known as deferent and epicycle first developed by Apollonius of Perga. Published in the Almagest, this...

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Scientific formalism
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 23:57:30

inspired Duhem was Thomas Aquinas, who wrote, regarding eccentrics and epicycles, that Reason may be employed in two ways to establish a point: firstly...

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Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta
Selasa, 2026-02-17 06:16:28

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Mahadevi (astronomy book)
Selasa, 2026-04-14 07:37:37

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Kepler orbit
Minggu, 2026-05-03 00:10:54

were explained by smaller circular paths overlaid on the larger path (see epicycle). As measurements of the planets became increasingly accurate, revisions...

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Ashvin (month)
Selasa, 2026-03-31 02:17:38

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Chaitra
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 18:21:24

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History of Mars observation
Senin, 2026-02-23 05:27:39

Hipparchus when he proposed that Mars moved along a circular track called the epicycle that, in turn, orbited about the Earth along a larger circle called the...

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List of Greek inventions and discoveries
Jumat, 2026-05-01 10:32:08

needed] Epicyclic gearing: around 500 BC, the Greeks invented the idea of epicycles, of circles travelling on the circular orbits. The Antikythera Mechanism...

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Astounding Award for Best New Writer
Jumat, 2026-06-05 10:05:10

Monteleone "Wendigo's Child" Guy Snyder Testament XXI 1975 P. J. Plauger* "Epicycle" Alan Brennert "Nostalgia Tripping" Suzy McKee Charnas Walk to the End...

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List of circle topics
Selasa, 2026-01-20 00:08:02

Nephroid – Plane curve; an epicycloid with radii differing by 1/2 Deferent and epicycle – Planetary motions in archaic models of the Solar System Hypotrochoid –...

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Cosmology in the Muslim world
Senin, 2026-04-20 00:06:09

ad-Din al-Bitruji (d. 1204) rejected the existence of eccentrics and epicycles. Instead, the motions of the planets would be explained by concentric...

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Celestial globe
Senin, 2025-11-24 13:32:57

be accurately represented by means of techniques involving the use of epicycles, deferents, eccentrics (whereby planetary motion is conceived as circular...

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Pañcabodha
Selasa, 2026-03-03 18:36:43

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Astrarium of Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio
Senin, 2026-01-05 07:36:47

accurately model the irregular motions of the planets (using the Ptolemaic epicycles rather than the ellipses as later worked out by Johannes Kepler). On some...

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Magha (month)
Senin, 2026-03-16 18:10:56

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Music of Illinois
Senin, 2026-04-20 10:31:32

O'Banion's replaced it, and new wave bands like Special Effect, The Dadistics, Epicycle and Ono played there. Another gay bar, Oz, soon opened and began catering...

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Agrahayana
Rabu, 2026-02-25 14:53:25

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Tirugaṇita-pañcāṅgam
Rabu, 2026-04-15 01:17:34

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Aristotelian physics
Rabu, 2026-03-04 14:06:03

spheres are concentric was forsaken in favor of Ptolemy's deferent and epicycle model. Aristotle submits to the calculations of astronomers regarding the...

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Tychonic system
Jumat, 2026-02-20 07:40:19

Capella, who described a system in which Mercury and Venus are placed on epicycles around the Sun, which circles the Earth. Copernicus, who cited Capella's...

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Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:18:04

proposed a theory on planetary motion in which he wished to avoid both epicycles and eccentrics, and to account for the phenomena peculiar to the wandering...

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Sosigenes the Peripatetic
Senin, 2025-05-26 11:49:05

Eudoxus for their imperfect theory of celestial spheres and also the use of epicycles, which he felt to be inconsistent with Aristotle's philosophical postulates...

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Wittenberg interpretation of Copernicus
Selasa, 2025-11-11 11:25:18

retrograde motion of the planets could be explained much better without epicycles, with the Earth orbiting the Sun rather than the other way around. Rheticus...

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List of compositions for piano duo
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 22:37:16

by Igor Stravinsky Cinq pièces faciles (1917) Stella Sung (b. 1959) Epicycles (1992) Josef Tal (1910–2008) Pieces for piano four hands (1931) A Little...

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Red Psalm
Rabu, 2026-03-11 09:47:31

fluid camera movements of a Max Ophuls than the elaborate cycles and epicycles of the Jancsó world, where everybody — open fields notwithstanding — is...

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Alexei Fridman
Rabu, 2026-05-20 04:28:39

waves in rotating stellar discs where the free path is the size of the epicycle. Fridman first showed that Landau nonlinear damping can exist in stellar...

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Pausha
Kamis, 2026-02-26 09:45:26

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Tantrasamgraha
Minggu, 2026-03-15 17:18:38

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Garga-samhita (Garga and Bharadvaja)
Kamis, 2024-07-25 23:43:14

values of sines and versine Graha-sphuṭī-karma: changes in the size of epicycles according to the quadrant Jīvā-prakalpana: a table of 12 sine values with...

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Mazhamaṅgalaṃ Śaṅkaran Naṃpūtiri
Rabu, 2026-03-04 05:14:18

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Abu Ali al-Khayyat
Jumat, 2025-12-19 03:48:38

Azimuth Celestial mechanics Celestial spheres Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Eccentricity Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Galaxy Geocentrism...

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Stephen Beville
Selasa, 2025-12-02 23:44:16

the Ballade for Eight Players, Purgatory Pieces for string quartet, and Epicycle for chamber orchestra - first performed by The New Ensemble, directed by...

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List of compositions by Iannis Xenakis
Rabu, 2026-05-13 04:03:37

clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba and string quintet (1989) Epicycles, for solo cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba...

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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Senin, 2026-06-01 00:40:33

technology (Farr's law). Now seems more like Ptolemaic astronomy with epicycles and deferents. This from an institute whose reputation is based on GBD...

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Paul Jordan-Smith
Senin, 2026-05-04 02:06:16

Jordan-Smith helped D.M. Dooling found Parabola magazine and served as its Epicycle editor. Jordan-Smith was a great admirer of the 17th-century British author...

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Jan of Głogów
Senin, 2026-05-18 19:23:45

combination of epicycles and eccentrics, while followers of Averroe thought orbs needed to be centered around the Earth, therefore epicycles and eccentrics...

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International Society for Contemporary Music
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 21:42:19

Uros Rojko, Der Atem der verletzten Zeit 1990, Oslo, Iannis Xenakis, Epicycles 1990, Oslo, Alfred Schnittke, Concerto Grosso I 1990, Oslo, Giacinto Scelsi...

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Karaṇa (pañcāṅga)
Minggu, 2026-05-10 03:49:04

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Devācārya
Rabu, 2026-03-04 05:07:09

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Michael Maestlin
Jumat, 2026-03-27 17:28:59

planetary system proposed by Copernicus involved fewer modifications (such as epicycles) than Ptolemy’s system, when in fact the opposite was true. Despite the...

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Vākyakaraṇa
Rabu, 2026-04-15 01:20:38

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Ganitagannadi
Kamis, 2025-04-17 05:02:28

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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List of compositions for cello and orchestra
Kamis, 2026-04-09 02:06:19

Concerto for amplified cello and orchestra Five (1975) Iannis Xenakis Epicycles, for cello and 12 instruments Victoria Yagling Cello Concerto No. 1 (1975)...

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Object of the mind
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 06:26:54

discoveries: some standard examples include phlogiston and ptolemaic epicycles. This raises questions, in the debate between scientific realism and instrumentalism...

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William Diver
Jumat, 2026-04-24 06:01:33

the Copernican astronomical system with the explanatory weakness of the epicycles of the Ptolemaic system, both of which had equal descriptive and predictive...

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Jyotirmimamsa
Jumat, 2024-12-13 23:57:49

calculation and the correction, correction of the periphery of the manda epicycle, discussion on the precision of the equinoxes, corrections due to the precession...

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Nirayana system
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 19:18:07

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Karanapaddhati
Minggu, 2025-01-26 07:30:34

to memorize all these factors using the katapayadi system. Chapter 7 : Epicycles of the Moon and the Sun, the apogee and perigee of the planets; sign calculation...

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Jagannatha Samrat
Kamis, 2025-12-18 18:38:12

Celestial sphere Celestial spheres Center of mass Circular orbit Deferent and epicycle Earth's rotation Ecliptic Elliptic orbit Equant Geocentrism Geoheliocentrism...

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Albumazar
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 06:34:05

verbose gibberish ("excentricals, / Centers, concentrics, circles, and epicycles," and "with scioferical instrument, / By way of azimuth and almicantarath...

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Index of ancient Greece-related articles
Senin, 2026-05-25 02:45:18

Dedication of Nikandre Defeat of Leonnatus by Antiphilus Deferent and epicycle Definitions (Plato) Deianira Deidamia (mythology) Deidamia of Scyros Deileon...

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Aryabhata II
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 18:55:33

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Jantar Mantar, Varanasi
Jumat, 2025-10-03 08:55:43

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Lillian Smith (author)
Jumat, 2026-03-20 12:31:17

V, 3-4 (Winter 1940–41), 4-8. "An Essay into Internationalism: I. of Epicycle and Men", North Georgia Review, V, 3–4 (Winter 1940–41), 9-17. With Paula...

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Jack Body
Jumat, 2026-01-02 13:06:39

four solo violas and 8 part massed violas BAI sanxian for string quartet Epicycle for string quartet Fire in the Belly for piano trio Flurry for three string...

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Ya'qub ibn Tariq
Rabu, 2025-05-28 23:37:58

possessed two spheres, and the Moon three. He also spoke of planetary epicycles and speeds. His values for the longitudes and apogees of celestial objects...

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Laura Foreman
Jumat, 2025-07-18 08:20:40

2001. Solo Suite (1967) A Time (1968) Perimeters (1969) Untitled (1970) Epicycles (1970) Signals (1970) glass and shadows (1971) Laura's Dance (1971) Songandance...

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