Crossword-Solution: EPICYCLES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Circles rolling around other circles | 1 answer |
| Inner circles, in astronomy models | 1 answer |
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One’s able to vote
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
LECREOT
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with EPICYCLES (5)
But when it came to almagest and astrolabe, the counting of figures and reckoning of epicycles, away would go her thoughts to horse and hound, and a vacant eye and listless face would warn the teacher that he had lost his hold upon his scholar.
But even he retained epicycles and excentrics, and could not explain the unequal orbits of planetary motion.
Eudoxus gave the conception greater tangibility, and may be considered as the father of this doctrine of wheels--epicycles, as they came to be called.
But Hipparchus, pre-eminently an observer rather than a theorizer, seems to have been content to accept the theory of epicycles as he found it, though his studies added to its complexities; and Hipparchus was the dominant scientific personality of his century.
Had he done so, perhaps he might have reflected, like Aristarchus before him, that it seems absurd for our earth to hold the giant sun in thraldom; then perhaps his imagination would have reached out to the heliocentric doctrine, and the cobweb hypothesis of epicycles, with that yet more intangible figment of the perfect circle, might have been wiped away.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2001–2014).