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Definition of Epicycles
1. epicycle [n] - See also: epicycle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epicycles
Literary usage of Epicycles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1859)
"Estimate of the Value of the Theory of Eccentrics and epicycles. IT may be useful
here to explain the value of the theoretical step which Hipparchus thus ..."
2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"In order to establish the Theory of epicycles, it was necessary to assign the
magnitudes, distances, and positions of the circles or spheres in which the ..."
3. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"Hence the epicycles and eccentrics of Coppernicus, which had to be adjusted in
such a way that E E' S FIG. 49.—The alteration in a planet's apparent ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... in not be explained by eccentrics nor by epicycles carried along ...
system of "eccentric*" and "epicycles" are referred to tlic 4'r. ..."
5. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1856)
"It will be seen that the radii drawn from Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, to the
centres of their respective epicycles always remain parallel to the line which ..."
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