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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 ...
Noted critics of the equant include the Persian astronomer Nasir al-Din Tusi who developed the Tusi couple as an alternative explanation, [10] and Nicolaus Copernicus, whose alternative was a new pair of small epicycles for each deferent. Dislike of the equant was a major motivation for Copernicus to construct his heliocentric system.
Size of deferents, epicycles Only ratio between radius of deferent and associated epicycle determined; absolute distances not determined in theory Interior planets: Average greatest elongations of 23° (Mercury) and 46° (Venus) Size of epicycles set by these angles, proportional to distances Interior planets Limited to movement near the Sun
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The epicycles of the planets in orbit around Earth (Earth at the centre). The path-line is the combined motion of the planet's orbit (deferent) around Earth and within the orbit itself (epicycle). Around 210 BCE, Apollonius of Perga shows the equivalence of two descriptions of the apparent retrograde planet motions (assuming the geocentric ...
The paths of planets in the once popular geocentric system of deferents and epicycles are epitrochoids with >, for both the outer planets and the inner planets. The orbit of the Moon, when centered around the Sun, approximates an epitrochoid. The combustion chamber of the Wankel engine is an epitrochoid with R = 2, r = 1 and d = 1.
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