10-29-2022, 04:55 PM
(10-29-2022, 04:17 PM)triggered Wrote: Say, this seems pretty cool. Never heard of epicycles. Is there a way we can see a screenshot of this program for those of us who can't install QB64PE on work computers?
Who has ever been interested in astronomy knows the term. The epicycle theory, intended to explain the otherwise inexplicable movements of the planets, was taught up to the times of Copernicus and Kepler. By then, however, this theory had become so complicated that hardly any astronomer really understood it, because inexplicable movements of the planets had to be explained again and again with new epicycles of the epicycle theory.
After Copernicus, Johannes Kepler finally cleared up the epicycle theory -> Kepler's laws. Deferent and epicycle
Curves of planetary motion in geocentric perspective: Epitrochoids
Geozentrisches Weltsystem