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Injustice, hardship and pain often pressed on the shoulders of Warmians and Masurians ... Dislike, injustice and violence surrounds us ... They ( Warmians and Masurians ) demand respect for their differentness, grown in the course of seven centuries and for freedom to maintain their traditions ".
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Instead, the deferent was centered on a point halfway between the Earth and another point called the equant.
To accommodate this, Ptolemy's model fixed the motion of Mercury and Venus so that the line from the equant point to the center of the epicycle was always parallel to the earth-sun line.
A planet or the center of an epicycle ( a smaller circle carrying the planet ) was conceived to move with a uniform speed with respect to the equant.
Although his system was firmly geocentric -- he had eliminated the Ptolemaic equant and eccentrics -- the mathematical details of his system encompassed those in Nicolaus Copernicus ' De revolutionibus, which had retained the Ptolemaic eccentric.
" Urdi's lemma " was an extension of Apollonius ' theorem that allowed an equant in an astronomic model to be replaced with an equivalent epicycle that moved around a deferent centered at half the distance to the equant point.

equant and for
Claudius Ptolemy refined the deferent / epicycle concept and introduced the equant as a mechanism for accounting for velocity variations in the motions of the planets.
For the Moon, Ptolemy began with Hipparchus ' epicycle-on-deferent, then added a device that historians of astronomy refer to as a " crank mechanism ": He succeeded in creating models for the other planets, where Hipparchus had failed, by introducing a third device called the equant.
Ptolemaic model of the spheres for Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with epicycle, eccentric deferent and equant point.
* Equidimensional: This is a synonym for equant when it is used as an adjective.
Ibn al-Shatir's model for the appearances of Mercury ( planet ) | Mercury, showing the multiplication of Deferent and epicycle | epicycle s using the Tusi-couple, thus eliminating the Ptolemaic eccentrics and equant.
Ibn al-Shatir ( 1304 – 1375 ), in his A Final Inquiry Concerning the Rectification of Planetary Theory, eliminated the need for an equant by introducing an extra epicycle, departing from the Ptolemaic system in a way very similar to what Copernicus later also did.

equant and Copernicus
Kepler calculated and recalculated various approximations of Mars ' orbit using an equant ( the mathematical tool that Copernicus had eliminated with his system ), eventually creating a model that generally agreed with Tycho's observations to within two arcminutes ( the average measurement error ).
* c. 1350 – Ibn al-Shatir anticipates Copernicus by abandoning the equant of Ptolemy in his calculations of planetary motion, and he provides the first empirical model of lunar motion which accurately matches observations
Copernicus eliminated Ptolemy's somewhat-maligned equant but at a cost of additional epicycles.
Noted critics of the equant include the Persian astronomer Nasir al-Din Tusi who developed the Tusi-couple as an alternative explanation, and Nicolaus Copernicus.

equant and system
Laplace's theory of celestial mechanics reduces to Kepler's when interplanetary interactions are ignored, and Kepler's reproduces Ptolemy's equant in a coordinate system where the Earth is stationary.
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi resolved significant problems in the Ptolemaic system by developing the Tusi-couple as an alternative to the physically problematic equant introduced by Ptolemy.

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Typical orthosilicates tend to form blocky equant crystals, and are fairly hard.
Although Ptolemy relied mainly on the work of Hipparchus, he introduced at least one idea, the equant, which appears to be his own, and which greatly improved the accuracy of the predicted positions of the planets.
Vitric ash particles from high-viscosity magma eruptions are typically angular, vesicular pumiceous fragments or thin vesicle-wall fragments while lithic fragments in volcanic ash are typically equant, or angular to subrounded.
Stresses within the " quenched " magma cause fragmentation into five dominant pyroclast shape-types: ( 1 ) blocky and equant ; ( 2 ) vesicular and irregular with smooth surfaces ; ( 3 ) moss-like and convoluted ; ( 4 ) spherical or drop-like ; and ( 5 ) plate-like.
Their most characteristic feature is the presence of equant megacrysts of plagioclase surrounded by a fine-grained mafic groundmass.
The basic elements of Ptolemaic astronomy, showing a planet on an epicycle with a deferent and an equant point.
In other words, to a hypothetical observer placed at the equant point, the center of the epicycle would appear to move at a steady speed.
where Ω is the constant angular speed seen from the equant which is situated at a distance E when the radius of the deferent is R.
Recovered from miarolitic cavities in the granitic pegmatite fields of Fianarantsoa province, southern Madagascar, the pezzottaite crystals were small — no more than about 7 cm in their widest dimension — and tabular or equant in habit, and few in number, most being heavily included with growth tubes and liquid feathers.
The pelvis includes equant pubic bones, ischia, and blade-shaped ilia connecting the pelvis to the vertebral column.
He then built a model that by adding new epicycles utilizing the Tusi-couple eliminated entirely the epicycle in the solar model, the eccentrics and equants in the planetary models, and the eccentric, epicycles and equant in the lunar model.

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