People like to make fun of epicycles because you can describe *any* orbit using epicycles. Here's an almost square orbit done using epicycles. But this weakness is also their strength: a "Fourier series" is a way of writing any periodic function using epicycles.pic.twitter.com/4Li5RUL927
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Heh. I thought that was the Lawrence Welk Show.pic.twitter.com/BNv0kRuwpN
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