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Unfortunately, one epicycle was not enough to fit the observations. So astronomers added epicycle upon epicycle (up to 28 in Ptolemy's system) to try to get predicted positions that would agree with the observations. Moreover, some of the epicycles were not centered on previous orbital paths (the "deferent") but were offset.

