The epicycle made it possible for the Greeks to explain the planetary movements.
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Epicycle
/ˈɛpɪˌsaɪkəl/
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6 entriesbureaucratic epicyclecarrier wheelgeocentric epicyclelinguistic epicycleplanetary epicycleplanetary gear
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Like most astronomers before him, Ptolemy believed the Sun, Moon, and other planets circled the Earth. He thought that each space body moved in a small circle (an epicycle) that was itself orbiting Earth.
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As presented to the earth the track of a planet is an elaborate epicycle; but Copernicus bade us transfer ourselves to the sun and look again.
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Is it not [Philosophie], that […] teacheth miserie, famine and sicknesse to laugh? Not by reason of some imaginarie Epicicles, but by naturall and palpable reasons.
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