How To Use epicyclic In A Sentence
- epicyclic gear train
- It then gives Ptolemy's own great discovery -- that which has made his name immortal -- the discovery of the moon's evection or second inequality, reducing it to the epicyclic theory. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
- It is an important but difficult job to compute the transmission ratio and the meshing efficiency of epicyclic gear trains.
- Our epicyclic solution is to augment statutory law with administrative law. Tragedy of the Commons (historical)
- Mr Wright found evidence that the Antikythera mechanism would have been able to reproduce the motions of the sun and moon accurately, using an epicyclic model devised by Hipparchus, and of the planets Mercury and Venus, using an epicyclic model derived by Apollonius of Perga. Boing Boing: September 29, 2002 - October 5, 2002 Archives
- Collectively Kepler's Laws superseded the ancient Ptolemaic concept of a spherical universe with epicyclic motion.
- Aristotelian cosmology survived unaltered by Ptolemaic astronomy, despite its eccentric planetary orbits and the epicyclic motions which already strained the original simple notion of uniform circular motion around the earth.
- It is based on the epicyclic and eccentric models of planetary motion.
- On the epicycle-deferent model, the planet P moves along an epicyclic circle, the centre of which moves along a deferent circle around the earth.
- At least 20 gear wheels of the mechanism have been preserved, including a very sophisticated assembly of gears that were mounted eccentrically on a turntable and probably functioned as a sort of epicyclic or differential, gear-system. Computer Greeks
