Image: Animated Hippopede of Eudoxus
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Description: Animation depicting Eudoxus' model of retrograde planetary motion. The two innermost homocentric spheres of his model are represented as rings here, each turning with the same period but in opposite directions, moving the planet along a figure-eight, or hippopede. As explained at https://www.thehistoryofphysics.org
Title: Animated Hippopede of Eudoxus
Credit: Own work
Author: Thehopads
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