Category:Epicycles

This category contains results about Epicycles.
Definitions specific to this category can be found in Definitions/Epicycles.

• Ptolemaic astronomy:
  • Epicycle: the orbit described by a body moving in a uniform circular motion around a point which is itself moving in a uniform circular motion around another point

• Analytic geometry:
  • Epicycle: the moving circle which rolls without slipping along a static curve such that a designated point on that epicycle generates a roulette.
    • Epicycle of Epicycloid
    • Epicycle of Hypocycloid