For the motion of the earth is a fact, and the apparent change of position of the fixed stars is due to the earth's motion and not to any motion of the stars themselves.
Heliocentric model of the solar system
From 'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium', Book I, Chapter 5
1543
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