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epicycle: see Ptolemaic system Ptolemaic system (tŏl'əmā`ĭk), historically the most influential of the geocentric cosmological theories, i.e. ..... Click the link for more information. . epicycle [′ep·ə‚sī·kəl] (mathematics) The circle which generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the Council of Trent, where the doctrine of the Schoolmen bare great sway, that the Schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics and epicycles, and such engines of orbs, to save the phenomena; though they knew there were no such things; and in like manner, that the Schoolmen had framed a number of subtle and intricate axioms, and theorems, to save the practice of the church. But when it came to almagest and astrolabe, the counting of figures and reckoning of epicycles, away would go her thoughts to horse and hound, and a vacant eye and listless face would warn the teacher that he had lost his hold upon his scholar. |
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