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homocentric
▪ I. homocentric, a. and n. (hɒməʊˈsɛntrɪk) [ad. mod.L. homocentric-us (1535 Fracastoro Homocentricorum), f. Gr. ὁµο- homo- + κεντρικ-ός centric; cf. F. homocentrique (1690 Furetière), homocentricalement (a 1553 Rabelais).] A. adj. 1. Having the same centre, concentric.1696 in Phillips (ed. 5). 1834...
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egocentric
egocentric, a. (ɛgəʊˈsɛntrɪk) [f. ego + centre n., after geocentric, heliocentric.] Centred in the ego; in vague or popular use: self-centred, egoistic.1900 in Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 1897–8 831 An earlier ethnocentric system born of the primeval egocentric cosmos of inchoate thinking. 1901 J. ...
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Concentric spheres
The cosmological model of concentric (or homocentric) spheres, developed by Eudoxus, Callippus, and Aristotle, employed celestial spheres all centered He came up with the idea of homocentric spheres in order to explain the perceived inconsistent motions of the planets and to develop a uniform model for
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-centric
-centric (sɛntrɪk) suffix, as in concentric, eccentric adjs., forming adjs. with the sense ‘having (such) a centre’, as polycentric a.; ‘having a specified centre’, as anthropo-, ethno-, helio-, homocentric adjs. 2. In Biol. [perh. f. centromere], ‘having the centromere attached at a specified point...
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Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji
which he wished to avoid both epicycles and eccentrics, and to account for the phenomena peculiar to the wandering stars, by compounding rotations of homocentric
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Bernard of Verdun
Whole of Astronomy (Tractatus super totam astrologiam), in which he defended Ptolemy's theory of epicycles and eccentrics against al-Bitruji's system of homocentric
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Girolamo Fracastoro
Homocentric Spheres
Fracastoro further developed Eudoxus' Astronomical model of Homocentric or Concentric spheres in an attempt to bring it back to the It was criticised by Christopher Clavius, since Homocentric Spheres could not account for the change in brightness of the planets over the course of a
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Autolycus of Pitane
Autolycus relied heavily on Eudoxus' astronomy and was a strong supporter of Eudoxus' theory of homocentric spheres.
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Copernican heliocentrism
A complementary theory to Ptolemy's employed homocentric spheres: the spheres within which the planets rotated could themselves rotate somewhat.
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Turbonegro - Darkness Forever! flac album - thomson-multimedia.com
队列表 Hard Rock Turbonegro Darkness Forever ! 添加专辑歌词. Band Name Turbonegro. Album Name Darkness Forever ! Type Live. In fact, this album documents the band's final show, in Oslo, Norway, on December 18, 1998. Having developed a wildly cult-like following - owing not only to the band's homocentric attitudes (one part A Clockwork ...
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Stop Messing About
Kevin Quarmby of the British Theatre Guide called it "an evening of loud whistles and bangs, cringingly dated, sexist and, ultimately, sadly pseudo-homocentric
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Shangjing, Zhejiang
It is a three-hall construction facing south and located on the head of the boat-shaped village, and is characterized by a unique two-homocentric squares
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Hamid Dabashi
conception of Islam, three competing discourses and institutions of authority – which he terms "nomocentric" (law-based), "logocentric" (reason-based) and "homocentric
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
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Eudoxus of Cnidus Donald Allen, Professor, Texas A&M University
Eudoxos of Knidos (Eudoxus of Cnidus): astronomy and homocentric
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Ethics of terraforming
These critics may view the homocentric view as not only geocentric but short-sighted, and tending to favour human interests to the detriment of ecological
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