Legacy
Much of the content of the epicycle system was taken over by its successors and is still in use today. Some of the terms used in modern astronomy are anomaly, equation, mean motion, eccentricity, apogee and perigee.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)