How to pronounce “epicycle” in English

So when Kepler, our very first astrophysicist, came on the scene after 2,000 years of people being stuck--the Ptolemaic models and all these epicycles-- it was Kepler that really at the end of the day a physical cause for why the planets were moving.And he was stuck, as we recall.

with theories for how the heavens worked at about that time.Ptolemy was the one with all the epicycles, for those of you who know what that is.And then people built fancier and fancier facilities for observing the heavens.

know. And according to the algorithm, you're someone that watches our show, but you haven't yet hit that button.All right. Well, if you do that, then we don't have epicycles.