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Usually a religion controlled how the solar system was expected to operate. Most religions had the Earth as the center of the solar system, so those civilizations pictured it that way. Some thinkers were able to see through to the facts, but the civilizations they belonged to did not accept a Sun-centered solar system until recently. The Sumerians did not have a heliocentric view of the solar system, but the Babylonians did. It didn't surface again until the "golden age" of Greece. It is just hard to believe that we are each doing small loop-de-loops, and spinning head over heels once every 24 hours.

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