on the function and the probable origin of ptolemy's equant

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On The Function And The Probable Origin OfPtolemy's EquantJames C. EvansUniversity of Puget Sound, jcevans@pugetsound.edu

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CitationEvans, James C.. 1984. "On the function and the probable origin of Ptolemy's equant." American Journal Of Physics 52(12):1080-1089.

On the function and the probable origin of Ptolemy’s equantJames Evans

Citation: American Journal of Physics 52, 1080 (1984); doi: 10.1119/1.13764 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.13764 View Table of Contents: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/52/12?ver=pdfcov Published by the American Association of Physics Teachers Articles you may be interested in The Origin of Probability and Entropy AIP Conf. Proc. 1073, 35 (2008); 10.1063/1.3039020 Ptolemy’s originality Am. J. Phys. 55, 874 (1987); 10.1119/1.14938 Ancient heliocentrists, Ptolemy, and the equant Am. J. Phys. 55, 235 (1987); 10.1119/1.15224 Conformal Mapping: From Ptolemy’s Cosmological Applications to its Use in Electronics, Nuclear ReactorTechnology, etc. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 73, 2229 (1983); 10.1121/1.389512 On the calculation of the probability density at the origin for an sstate J. Math. Phys. 19, 1141 (1978); 10.1063/1.523774

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