Question

Why did potelmy include epicycles in his model??
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Answer 1

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Ptolemy insisted that the job of the astronomer was to explain the motions of the wanderers using only uniform circular motion - the kind of motion that most gears and wheels show. To make the planets appear to speed up and slow down, three tricks were used. The epicycles we've just shown were the first trick.