Comment Re:Judging by the above coments... (Score 1) 258
What's more interesting is that the religious beliefs of the Greeks changed the design some. Greeks believed it was blasphemous to suggest that the moon rotated the earth in anything but a perfect circle. So to account for the change in brightness that happens in a 9 year cycle because of the elliptical orbit there are gears stacked on top of one another with a pin slightly off center.
