epicycles in English
noun
1
a small circle whose center moves around the circumference of a larger one.
The historically older concept of epicycles (small cycles on a bigger cycle) has not found use in the geological literature.
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1. Ptolemy's epicycles could still fit the data.
2. Hipparchus employed the system to plot the minor epicycles of the sun and moon only.
3. His Planetary Hypotheses went beyond the mathematical model of the Almagest to present a physical realization of the universe as a set of nested spheres, in which he used the epicycles of his planetary model to compute the dimensions of the universe.