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The story that the Earth goes around the sun confuses me. I believe this story to be true, but what brought about the line of thought that the sun doesn't go around the Earth? For all I can tell, the sun does go around the Earth. I know that there are logical reasons that the sun doesn't rotate around the Earth, but the only ones I can think of all use modern technology. How would one prove this story without modern technology?

What really made me think the most was Galileo's character. He was so convinced that his story that the Earth goes around the sun was true that he stood against the church. When he was brought before the authorities, however, he broke. This kind of reminds me of the main character in the book 1984. Both the main character of that book and Galileo break and conform to "the man" quickly (or at least more quickly than I think that they should have). I wonder what the breaking of Galileo has to do with everything that was happening around the time it was written. Obviously there was a lot of stuff going on in that period, but why was Galileo, who clearly believed he was right, written to break so easily?