bicycle
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He must not allow the justices to draw him into epicycles of arcane hypotheticals: What if a president did this?
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2024
This geocentric model, based on combinations of uniform circular motion using epicycles, was accepted as authority for more than a thousand years.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
The scholastics in the Middle Ages had a lot of intricacy in their intellectual constructions, and even the Ptolemaic epicycles or whatever were ...
From Slate • Jul. 23, 2012
The relevant question is: Do we keep adding epicycles to the faltering aged paradigm, or do we seek a revolutionary new paradigm?
From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2011
First, that each planet, plus the Sun and Moon, had to be treated separately in the model, with its own offset from the Earth and its own epicycles.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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