Epicycles
Azimuth 2024-12-21
Summary:
Some people think medieval astronomers kept adding ‘epicycles’ to the orbits of planets, culminating with the Alfonsine Tables created in 1252. The 1968 Encyclopædia Britannica says: By this time each planet had been provided with from 40 to 60 epicycles to represent after a fashion its complex movement among the stars. But this is complete […]