For a long time, the church and the scientific community held the belief that the
earth was the center of the universe, and everything revolved around it.
If you didn't follow that, you would be called a heretic, banned from science societies,even burned at the stake.
What is amazing is that it took so long to accept that there is no central point in the universe. Whenever you are moving, or in a moving object, what is outside will go past, or revolve, around you. They must have realized this a long time ago.