See also:

• EPICYCLE (Gr. upon, and KuKXos, circle)

EPICYCLE (Gr. upon, and KuKXos, circle)  , in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

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 (from the Lat. retro, backwards, gradiri, to go)

retrograde See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion of the See also:

• OUTER

outer See also:

• PLANETS, MINOR

planets, See also:

• MARS
• MARS (MAYORS, MARMAR, MARSPITER GA MASPITER)
• MARS, MLLE [ANNE FRANCOISE HYPPOLYTE BOUTET] (1779-1847)

Mars, See also:

• JUPITER

Jupiter and See also:

• SATURN
• SATURN [SATURNUS]

Saturn, which we now know to be due to the See also:

• ANNUAL

annual revolution of the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth around the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun, but which in the Ptolemaic astronomy were taken to be real .