When the definition of an epicyclic train is restricted as it is by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference

Our epicyclic solution is to augment statutory law with administrative law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tragedy of the Commons (historical)] Reference

Three centuries later, the astronomer Ptolemy build on his work to form the epicyclic model.    From Wordnik.com.  [Egnor responds, falls flat on his face - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

It's logical in the epicyclic sense that you can always make up a new logical rule to cover each exception.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: LINGUISTIC MUTATION.] Reference

In both classes, the action involves the use of some sort of epicyclic train, since the motions to be explained are both orbital and axial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference

It could be argued that if the Greeks knew the principle of gearing, they should have had no difficulty in constructing mechanisms as complex as epicyclic gears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference

A chaotic model might well exhibit “interesting” behavior on a whole spectrum of time scales, though, as various parts of the dynamic cycle undergo epicyclic oscillations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis E on Hansen and Model Reliability « Climate Audit] Reference

A favorite illustration of the peculiarities of epicyclic mechanism, introduced both by Prof. Willis and Prof. Goodeve, is found in the contrivance known as Ferguson's Mechanical Paradox, shown in Fig. 18.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference

It is, then, absolutely necessary to make this modification in the general formula, in order to apply it in determining the rotations of any wheel of an epicyclic train whose axis is not parallel to that of the sun-wheels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference

The action of a complete epicyclic train involves virtually and always the action of two suns and two planets; but it has already been shown that the two planets may merge into one piece, as in Fig. 10, where the planet-wheel gears externally with one sun-wheel, and internally with the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

It contains a clutch, an epicyclic gearbox and a flywheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [F1 Fanatic - The Formula 1 Blog | F1 video | F1 pictures | F1 news | Lewis Hamilton | Fernando Alonso] Reference

Swinburne's "Tristram of Lyonesse" (1882) dealt at full length, and in a very different spirit, with an epicyclic legend which.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Some employ only concentric circles, others use eccentric and epicyclic ones, with which, however, they do not fully attain the desired end.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science] Reference

Deferent: In the epicyclic theory, uneven motion is represented by motion round a circle whose centre travels round another circle, the latter is called the deferent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kepler]

It then gives Ptolemy's own great discovery -- that which has made his name immortal -- the discovery of the moon's evection or second inequality, reducing it to the epicyclic theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference

Kepler gave his fancy play in the choice of an oval, greater at one end than the other, endeavouring to satisfy some ideas about epicyclic motion, but could not find a satisfactory curve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kepler]

Peuerbach is also noted for his great attempt to reconcile the opposing thoeries of the universe, the so-called homocentric speres of Eudoxus and Aristotle, with Ptolemy's epicyclic trains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

This last fact is of course because the motion to be represented does not really belong to the planet at all, but to the earth, and so all the main epicyclic motions for the superior planets were the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Science] Reference

World, whilst others were epicyclic circles, the centres of which described deferent circles concentric with or eccentric to the World; moreover, the motion on the deferent was no longer uniform, seeming so only when viewed from the centre of the equant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

In its report, the AAIB issues three safety recommendations, demanding that all operators of Super Puma AS332L2 helicopters similar to the one that crashed implement extra inspections and "enhanced monitoring to ensure the continued airworthiness of the main rotor gearbox epicyclic module".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It was long ago perceived that real material spheres were unnecessary; such spheres indeed, though possibly transparent to light, would be impermeable to comets: any other epicyclic gearing would serve, and as a mere description of the motion it is simpler to think of a system of jointed bars, one long arm carrying a shorter arm, the two revolving at different rates, and the end of the short one carrying the planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Science] Reference

Apparent epicyclic orbits of Jupiter and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Science] Reference