{"id":3279,"date":"2009-08-04T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2009-08-04T03:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T08:00:19","slug":"ptole-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3279","title":{"rendered":"Ptole &#8230; Doh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QVuU2YCwHjw?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QVuU2YCwHjw?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reconstruction of a planet&#8217;s bizarre orbit with Ptolemy&#8217;s system of epicycles and deferents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s behind this?  Any periodic function can be represented as a Fourier series.  All that&#8217;s really happening here is one is plotting it in polar coordinates, and the Fourier components become epicycles.  Any one-line drawing made without the pen leaving the paper and starting where it stops, should be able to be represented this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Reconstruction of a planet&#8217;s bizarre orbit with Ptolemy&#8217;s system of epicycles and deferents. What&#8217;s behind this? Any periodic function can be represented as a Fourier series. All that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}