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- noun Plural form of
equant .
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Examples
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But when time came for actual calculation it did no better than the old system of epicycles, equants and other weird things.
What Was Galileo’s Trial About? de Brantigny........................ 2008
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But when time came for actual calculation it did no better than the old system of epicycles, equants and other weird things.
Archive 2008-03-30 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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"... Copernicus 'aesthetic objections to [equants] provided one essential motive for his rejection of the Ptolemaic system ...."
Taste for Makers 2002
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After incredible labour, through innumerable wrong guesses, and six years of almost incessant calculation, he at length emerged in his two "laws" -- discoveries which swept away all epicycles, deferents, equants, and other remnants of the
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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The equants might divide the line in any arbitrary ratio.
Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895
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He established the order of planets and devised a system which accounted for the movements of planets without equants, but he was motivated by the desire to establish uniform circular motion, itself a classical ideal.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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He established the order of planets and devised a system which accounted for the movements of planets without equants, but he was motivated by the desire to establish uniform circular motion, itself a classical ideal.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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He established the order of planets and devised a system which accounted for the movements of planets without equants, but he was motivated by the desire to establish uniform circular motion, itself a classical ideal.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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He established the order of planets and devised a system which accounted for the movements of planets without equants, but he was motivated by the desire to establish uniform circular motion, itself a classical ideal.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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He established the order of planets and devised a system which accounted for the movements of planets without equants, but he was motivated by the desire to establish uniform circular motion, itself a classical ideal.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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