Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Circle? Take this
The dude in 1 proposed 2 to explain something. Who is this dude? What are those funky curves known as?
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Quoting Anjul - This is Ptolemy who used these diagrams to explain the orbits of planets under his geocentric theory of the universe. Those funky curves are called deferents and epicycles.