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Epicycle of a planet.

Author:
ltgrau
In this construction we generate an epicycle that represents the orbit of a planet around the Earth in a Ptolemaic system. This geometric model was used to explain the variations in speed and direction of the apparent motion of the moon, sun and planets.

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