Graham Harman: Rogue Planets
Planets were known to the ancient Greeks as wander stars, and those as far as Saturn could be seen with the naked eye.Thei occasional retrograde motion was explained by Plotemy through epicycles — smaller circles grafted onto larger circular orbits — a useful theoretical fiction.
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