the world might be round and the works of Galileo on the rotation of the Moons of Jupiter might just be analogous with the rotation of the earth around the Sun.
Progress does not come without a price… Einstein opened up the world of quantum physics by example asking whether the train you are travelling on is moving or merely the world outside your window. Einstein correctly predicted that the period of time that Mercury hides behind the sun from our point of observation on the Earth, is shorter than the time illustrated in the Principia Mathetica, the work of Newton on the sweeping arcs of the Planets that has lead to the freshman study of Calculus ever since. The rate of change of any item with respect to time, d(any physical amount you might decide to measure)/dt did not take into account that the physical measurements of the Universe, even the neighbourhood of it that we inhabit was inextricably related to the measurement of time. You see Mercury close to the Sun pops out a little early from the Sun’s silhouette when observed from a distant object, such as the Earth, because the light rays from Mercury are bent inwards towards the earth, briefly by curvature of space-time caused by a such a relatively large mass in between the Earth and our not-one but next-door neighbour. In a stroke Einstein established the equivalence of mass and energy and also the oneness of space and time. This opened the world of atomic physics but created another conundrum, the quantum world followed where small scale physics appeared to render mass equivalent to wave energy and therefore the universe could not only be described in terms of time, energy and mass but also by the probability of any part of that occurring in any point in the new ‘space-time’.