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Which excerpt from Robert Stawell Ball's Great astronomer is best supported by this diagram ?

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It's excerpt 4. The diagram depicts Ptolemy's theory on the movement of Mars. The M that is marked there is a fictitious planet that revolves around the Earth in a uniform motion within a circle called the DEFERENT.

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