Cyclopædia
Assuming ptolemaic is required, the following 7 results were found.
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PTOLEMAIC Systemhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PTOLEMAIC-System
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS
terminating at each end in the surface of the mundane sphere. See SPHERE. About this line as an axis, the sphere, in the Ptolemaic system, is supposed daily to revolve. See EARTH and ROTATION. See also PTOLEMAIC. This axis is represented by the line PQ,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Astronomyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy
Micrometer, Reticula, &c. Collected in Catalogue, Tables, &c. Hypotheses, or Systems thereof, Copernican, Tychonic, Ptolemaic, &c. , Exhibited in Sphere, Globe, &c.
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Micrometer, Reticula, &c. Collected in Catalogue, Tables, &c. Hypotheses, or Systems thereof, Copernican, Tychonic, Ptolemaic, &c. , Exhibited in Sphere, Globe, &c. 33 CHRONOLOGY, or the Doctrine of TIME ; measur'd by Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour. Age,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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APSIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APSIDES
between the Center of the Orbit of the Planet C, and the Center of the Sun or Earth S, according as the Copernican or the Ptolemaic System is followed. See ECCENTRICITY. For the Motion of the Line of the Apsides, see Apogee, etc. The Word comes from the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Astronomy
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ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY
Ptolemy, and his Followers; with all the Apparatus of solid Orbs, Epicycles, Eccentrics, Deferents, Trepidations, etc. See PTOLEMAIC. See also HEAVEN, EPICYCLE, etc. The ancient Astronomy is delivered by Claudius Ptolemy, who died A.D. 1473 in his...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACHRONICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ACHRONICAL
of Mars, who is then found to be nearer the Earth than the Sun, has been one great Occasion of exploding the ancient Ptolemaic System, which places the Sun in the Centre of the World, and Mars beyond the Sun. See EARTH, MARS, etc. The Achronical is one...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Astronomy