Epicycle - Law Dictionary Search Results

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epicyclic

Pertaining to resembling or having the motion of an epicycle...

A circle whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle or a small circle whose center being fixed in the deferent of a planet is carried along with the deferent and yet by its own peculiar motion carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center...

Equant

A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly called also eccentric equator...

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