-
number of
epicycles. This is
because epicycles can be
represented as a
complex Fourier series; therefore, with a
large number of
epicycles, very complex...
-
equant with a pair of new
epicycles was
entirely equivalent.
Astronomers often continued using the
equants instead of the
epicycles because the
former was...
- the main
reason that Copernicus'
system had even more
epicycles than Ptolemy's. The more
epicycles proved to have more
accurate measurements of how the...
-
standard epicyclic gearing.
Around 500 BCE, the Gr****s
invented the idea of
epicycles, of
circles travelling on the
circular orbits. With this
theory Claudius...
- Archimedes, with
knowledge of
epicycles and eccentrics, and the
Antikythera mechanism also
appears to
presuppose eccentrics and
epicycles in the way it produces...
-
astronomy that were po****r
among the
Arabs and Byzantines. His work on
epicycles has come to
symbolize a very
complex theoretical model built in order...
- ways, it was easy to
identify that 7;7 and 2;7 were the
radii of the
epicycles. In addition, his
final results for
apparent size of the
solar diameter...
- For Kuhn, the
addition of
epicycles in
Ptolemaic astronomy was "normal science"
within a paradigm,
whereas the
Copernican Revolution was a
paradigm shift...
-
their data, in
their measurements of Brihaspati's revolutions, apogee,
epicycles,
nodal longitudes,
orbital inclination, and
other parameters. For example...
-
versions disagree in
their measurements of Shani's revolutions, apogee,
epicycles,
nodal longitudes,
orbital inclination, and
other parameters. For example...
