Kinda reminds you of the old "epicycles" sometimes, doesn't it?
Having to add more and more gadgets to the theories to get things to come out right, when the reality was actually quite simple.
In 1684 Dr Halley came to visit him at Cambridge, after they had been some time together, the Doctor asked him what he thought the curve would be that would be described by the Planets supposing the force of attraction towards the Sun to be reciprocal to the square of their distance from it. Sir Isaac replied immediately that it would be an Ellipsis, the Doctor struck with joy & amazement asked him how he knew it, why saith he I have calculated it...