Timezone takes a close look at cosmology and the equation of time. Take a gander so you can see what that weird complication actually does.
Having put ourselves in Fred Flintstone’s shoes (or saber-toothed tiger loafers, as the case may be), we can see that one fact must have seemed obvious to our flea-bitten ancestors — looking up at the sky, day or night, the natural conclusion to draw is that the earth is stationary, with heavenlybodies moving around it.