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... EPICYCLES FROM PTOLEMY TO COPERNICUS Book II . THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE KEPLER 6. GALILEO AND THE TElescope - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL ...
... EPICYCLES FROM PTOLEMY TO COPERNICUS Book II . THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE KEPLER 6. GALILEO AND THE TElescope - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL ...
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... moderr observations . ( British Museum collection , No. 35908. ) obtained from modern observations made with instru- ments of the. CHALDEAN BAKED BRICK OR TABLET , Obverse and reverse sides ,. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES FROM PTOLEMY.
... moderr observations . ( British Museum collection , No. 35908. ) obtained from modern observations made with instru- ments of the. CHALDEAN BAKED BRICK OR TABLET , Obverse and reverse sides ,. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES FROM PTOLEMY.
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... epicycles and deferents which had been used by Apollonius and others to explain the retrograde motions of the ... epicycles of Mercury and Venus to be on a bar passing through the sun , and to be between the earth and the sun . The ...
... epicycles and deferents which had been used by Apollonius and others to explain the retrograde motions of the ... epicycles of Mercury and Venus to be on a bar passing through the sun , and to be between the earth and the sun . The ...
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... epicycles . We may look upon these epicycles of Apollonius , and the excentric of Hipparchus , as the responses of these astronomers to the demand of Plato for uniform circular motions . Their use became more and more confirmed , until ...
... epicycles . We may look upon these epicycles of Apollonius , and the excentric of Hipparchus , as the responses of these astronomers to the demand of Plato for uniform circular motions . Their use became more and more confirmed , until ...
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... epicycle , which was fatal to any con- ception of a dynamical theory . Copernicus could not sever himself from this obnoxious tradition.1 It is true that neither the Pythagorean nor the Egypto - Tychonic system required epicycles for ...
... epicycle , which was fatal to any con- ception of a dynamical theory . Copernicus could not sever himself from this obnoxious tradition.1 It is true that neither the Pythagorean nor the Egypto - Tychonic system required epicycles for ...
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