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epicycle <epicycle; epicycles> N

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Any pathperiodic or not, closed or opencan be represented with an infinite number of epicycles.
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A planet or the center of an epicycle (a smaller circle carrying the planet) was conceived to move with a uniform angular speed with respect to the equant.
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Eccentrics and epicycles came to be thought of as useful fictions.
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By using eccentrics and epicycles, his geometrical model achieved greater mathematical detail and predictive accuracy than had been exhibited by earlier concentric spherical models of the cosmos.
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It isn't even clear that he used fewer epicycles than the geocentric model did.
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He naturally regarded circular motion as fundamental and then used the circular motion of deferents and epicycles in his earth-centered theory.
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In a deferent/epicycle model, the parts of the whole are interrelated.
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A given planet then moves around the epicycle at the same time the epicycle moves along the path marked by the deferent.
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The combination of epicycle gear trains with a planet engaging both a sun gear and an annular gear is called a "planetary gear train".
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To account for apparent anomalies in this view, such as the apparent retrograde motion of the planets, a system of deferents and epicycles was used.
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