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Definition of Equants
1. equant [n] - See also: equant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equants
Literary usage of Equants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"... than Ptolemy himself, as he rejected the equants of the latter.* Milton's
famous description (Par. Lost, VIII. 82-5) of " The Sphere With Centric and ..."
2. The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great by Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (1867)
"... eccentrics and epicycles, equants and differents, until to preserve simplicity,
the system had grown to the most extravagant complexity. ..."
3. The planetary and stellar worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great by Ormsby MacKnight Mitchell (1859)
"... eccentrics and epicycles, equants and differents, until, to preserve simplicity,
the system had grown to the most extravagant complexity. ..."
4. The Orbs of Heaven; Or: The Planetary and Stellar Worlds. A Popular by Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (1851)
"... eccentrics and epicycles, equants and differents, until, to preserve simplicity,
the system had grown to the most extravagant complexity. ..."
5. The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, A. M. (Alistair Matheson) Duncan, Eric J. Aiton, Judith Veronica Field (1997)
"... wrote to Georg Joachim Rheticus asking for an astronomy without hypotheses,
by which he meant concentric spheres, epicycles, eccentrics, and equants. ..."
6. Pioneers of Science by Oliver Lodge (1905)
"The equants might divide the line in any arbitrary ratio. All sorts of combinations
had to be tried, the relative positions of the earth and Mars to be ..."
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