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Apollonius of Perga (3rd century BC) realized that this cyclical variation could be represented visually by small circular orbits, or epicycles, revolving on larger circular orbits, or deferents. Hipparchus (2nd century BC) calculated the required orbits. Deferents and epicycles in the ancient models did not represent orbits in the modern sense ...
Applied without an epicycle (as for the Sun), using an equant allows for the angular speed to be correct at perigee and apogee, with a ratio of (+) / (where is the orbital eccentricity). But compared with the Keplerian orbit , the equant method causes the body to spend too little time far from the Earth and too much close to the Earth.
To describe this forward-and-backward motion, Apollonius 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 themselves carried on other rotating circles, and so on.
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Book III describes his work on the precession of the equinoxes and treats the apparent movements of the Sun and related phenomena. Book IV is a similar description of the Moon and its orbital movements. Book V explains how to calculate the positions of the wandering stars based on the heliocentric model and gives tables for the five planets.
For the ratios of the radii of the outer planets' deferents to radius of the Earth, the Commentariolus gives 1 13 ⁄ 25 for Mars, 5 13 ⁄ 60 for Jupiter, and 9 7 ⁄ 30 for Saturn. For the ratios of the radii of their deferents to the radii of the larger of their epicycles, it gives 6 138 ⁄ 167 for Mars, 12 553 ⁄ 606 for Jupiter, and 11 ...
If so then Deceived Wisdom is the book for you. Organised into easy-to-read standalone sections, it looks at the things we think we know and examines why we don’t know them at all. There is much deceived wisdom in the world – from fit-ness fallacies to dietary deceptions and countless miscellane-ous misconceptions.