Don't you just love watching the sun rise?
yes  but although the sun appears to rise from the horion, it actually is because of the earths motion that the sun appears!
Isn't that crazy?  It really looks like it rises in the East and sets in the West!
yes that illusion of a moving sun from earth observers being roated - it's so convincing that mythologies and religions built this around the geocentric model and wasn't until 16th century the truth was formulated!
I would have been one of the naysayers I suppose.  I watch the sun rise every morning on my drive to work.
astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism because of the absence of an observed stellar parallax. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture". Galileo later defended his views in "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" (1632), which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He
Sunrise
Sunrise (or Sun up) is the moment when the upper limb of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning. The term can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon and its accompanying atmospheric effects.
Terminology.
Terminology "Rise".
Although the Sun appears to "rise" from the horizon, it is actually the "Earth's" motion that causes the Sun to appear. The illusion of a moving Sun results from Earth observers being in a rotating reference frame