Eccentrics
In Ptolemaic cosmology, displacement of the center of a rotating celestial sphere from the center of the Universe.
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Eccentrics
An offcenter circular path.
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Moreover, the system of movable eccentrics, and that of epicycles and deferents, accounted well for most of the irregularities observed in the motions of the Sun, the Moon, and the planets.
His reformed model was the first to reject the equant and eccentrics, free celestial kinematics from cosmology, and reduce physical entities to geometrical entities.
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to explain the complex motions of the planets using purely concentric spheres, which moved with differing speeds from east to west. This model was an attempt to restore the concentric spheres of Aristotle without Ptolemy's epicycles and eccentrics, ...
He further elaborated it by the introduction of " eccentrics," which accounted for the changes in orbital velocity of the sun and moon by a displacement of the earth, to a corresponding extent, ...
Copernicus therefore had no choice but to use the eccentrics, epicycles, and equants of Ptolemaic cosmology, to which he added three kinds of motion he used to describe the observed behaviour of the Earth: ...
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s he delighted children across the country with his educational broadcasts on BBC Radio's 'Childrens' Hour' as 'The Stargazer', and in the mid-1940s he joined that select group of eccentrics who broadcast as 'The Brains ...
(see Elements, Orbital.) [S92]
(d) The amount by which the orbit deviates from circularity: e = c/a, where c is the distance from the center to a focus and a is the semimajor axis. [H76]
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