Crossword-Solution: EQUANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Equant | n. | A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator. |
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| circle in which a planet was formerly believed to move | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with EQUANT (5)
Hence was introduced the idea of an Equant, _i.e._ an arbitrary point, not the earth, about which the speed might be uniform.
Copernicus, by making the sun the centre, had been able to simplify a good deal of this, and to abolish the equant.
All the complications of epicycle, equant, deferent, excentric, and the like, were swept at once away, and an orbit of striking and beautiful properties substituted.
Coppernicus, as already mentioned, rejected the equant, as being productive of an irregularity “unworthy” of the celestial bodies, and constructed for each planet a fairly complicated system of epicycles.
Ptolemy’s lunar theory could have been nearly freed from the serious difficulty already noticed (§ 48) if he had used an equant to represent the chief inequality of the moon; and his planetary theory would have been made accurate to the first order of small quantities by the use of an equant both for the deferent and the epicycle.