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Epicycles had low predictive power and was needlessly complicated compared to later theories, but it wasn't "nonsense"; the predictions the theory made about th
by Georgelemental 4y ago
Epicycles had low predictive power and was needlessly complicated compared to later theories, but it wasn't "nonsense"; the predictions the theory made about the relative positions of the Earth and planets were pretty accurate.
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- SAI_Peregrinus 4y agoAnd thanks to our knowledge of Fourier Series we could come up with an even more accurate epicyclic model today! It's only when you try to explain tides or Lagrange points that a geocentric epicyclic model falls apart.