Some time following the Copernican realization that the Earth was not the center of the universe...
Ludwig Wittgenstein: "Tell me, why do people always say it was natural for man to assume that the sun went around the Earth rather than that the Earth was rotating?"
Friend: "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth".
Wittgenstein: "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating"?