Online Encyclopedia

EPICYCLE (Gr. upon, and KuKXos, circle)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:
EPICYCLE (Gr. upon, and KuKXos, circle)  , in
See also:
ancient
See also:
astronomy, a small circle the centre of which describes a larger one . It was especially used to represent geometrically the periodic apparent
See also:
retrograde
See also:
motion of the
See also:
outer
See also:
planets,
See also:
Mars,
See also:
Jupiter and
See also:
Saturn, which we now know to be due to the
See also:
annual revolution of the
See also:
earth around the
See also:
sun, but which in the Ptolemaic astronomy were taken to be real .

End of Article: EPICYCLE (Gr. upon, and KuKXos, circle)
[back]
EPICURUS (342–270 B.C.) 		[next]
EPICYCLOID

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.