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Keywords:  epicycle, ptolemaic, revolves, equant, circle
Related Terms: Epicycle, Heliocentric, Asteroid, Inferior conjunction, Inferior planet, Planets , Jovian planet, Inferior planets, Solar system, Superior planet, Extrasolar planet, Outer planets, Apollo asteroid, Asteroid belt, Superior planets, Inner planets, Planetoid, Moon, Planet, Barycenter, Kuiper belt, Orbiter, Comet, Terrestrial planets, Libration, Oort cloud, Perihelion, Elongation, Transit, Aphelion, Superior conjunction, Minor planet, Planetary, Heliopause, Conjunction, Terrestrial planet, Asteroids , Comets, Syzygy , Geocentric, Retrograde, Kepler, johannes, Cazimi, Opposition, Ecliptic, Interplanetary space, Heliosphere, Occultation, Appulse, Retrograde motion
An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
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In the Ptolemaic system, the large circle centered on the Earth upon which circumference the center of a smaller circle (epicycle) revolves; the planet moves on the epicycle.
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A construct of the geocentric model of the solar system which was needed to explain observed planetary motions. A deferent is a large circle encircling the Earth, on which an epicycle moves.
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Keywords:  carry, conveys, bearing, serving
Serving to carry; bearing.
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That which carries or conveys.
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Keywords:  showing
showing deference
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