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Uhm no, wrong comparison.Once upon a time the same was said about the sun revolving around the earth or the earth being flat.
The paradigm of a spherical Earth appeared in Greek philosophy with Pythagoras (6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth model. Aristotle accepted the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds around 330 BC, and knowledge of the spherical Earth gradually began to spread beyond the Hellinistic world from then on. The modern misconception that educated Europeans at the time of Columbus believed in a flat Earth, and that his voyages refuted that belief, has been referred to as the myth of the flat Earth. The myth of the flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the MIddle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical...
Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543, was the renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the sun rather than earth at its center. The publication of this model in his book 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium' (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) just before his death in 1543 is considered a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making an important contribution to the Scientific Revolotion.
Only mild controversy (and no fierce sermons) was the immediate result of the 1543 publication of Copernicus' book. At the Council of Trent (1545–63) neither Copernicus' theory nor calendar reform (which would later use tables deduced from Copernicus' calculations) were discussed. It has been much debated why it was not until six decades after the publication of De revolutionibus that the Catholic Church took any official action against it, even the efforts of Tolosani going unheeded. Catholic side opposition only commenced seventy-three years later, when it was occasioned by Galileo, the "father of modern obeservational astronomy".
For believers (careful, we don't want to insult someone's religious beliefs!):
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For realists/cynicals:
The Earth Doesn't Actually Orbit The Sun?Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun | RealClearScience
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