The Ptolemy Epicycle and Deferent System: A Reconstruction

Authors

  • Christián C. Carman Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ)/Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me6.246

Keywords:

epicycles, deferents, equator, reconstruction, structuralism

Abstract

This paper offers a first version of a structuralist reconstruction of the theory of epicycles and deferents proposed by Claudius Ptolemy in the Almagest to explain planetary motion, with special interest in those aspects that allow us to calculate the distance of the planets offered by Ptolemy himself in Planetary Hypotheses.

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Published

2015-10-01

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Carman, C. C. (2015). The Ptolemy Epicycle and Deferent System: A Reconstruction. Metatheoria – Journal of Philosophy and History of Science, 6(1), 47–72. https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me6.246

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Thematic Volume - Metatheoretical Structuralism: Some Recent Developments and Applications - Part II

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