epicycles的意思

epicycles中文翻譯：

n.[天]本輪；[數]周轉圓

相似詞語短語

epicycles color───顏色本輪

雙語使用場景

Strange epicycles are the result, instead of good arcs.───結果是奇怪的軌跡，代替了好的弧線。

Trying to describe how the five planets in the night sky followed seemingly irregular paths, Ptolemy hit upon an idea he called epicycles.───當設法解釋夜空中的五顆行星為何好象沿著不規則的軌道運行時，托勒密腦海中閃現出一個觀念，他稱之為“本輪”。

The centers of the epicycles of Mercury and Venus must lie on the line joining the Earth and the Sun.───水星和金星的均輪中心，和地球及太陽中心永遠連成一條直線。

Ptolemy added epicycles to the circular orbits of the heavenly bodies in order that his model might accurately describe their motion.───托勒密增加了天體環形運行軌道的本輪，為了使他的模型可以精確的描述運動。

These circles on circles, themselves called epicycles, dominated astronomical thinking for the next 1, 800 years.───這種繞圈移動的圓就叫做周轉圓，這想法在天文界維持了1800年。

英語使用場景

The stellar sphere, owing to its vast distance from earth, needed no epicycles because its movement appeared regular and unchanging.

He also branded the idea of planetary motion caused by invisible epicycles as equally erroneous.

This eliminated the complex system of epicycles that both Copernicus and Ptolemy had found necessary.

Hipparchus employed the system to plot the minor epicycles of the sun and moon only.

Ptolemy's epicycles could still fit the data.