Common sense has never said that. Stand on any high point you can only see so far -- common sense that the earth is not flat. And the concept of Sun centric orbit predates Copernicus by centuries and centuries.
What caused the such silly wrong views to be upheld for generations, even when common sense spoke against them? Orthodoxy. Canonical thinking. A jealous priesthood of philosophy.
You are not Galileo, you are like the Holy Church that prosecuted him -- sentenced him to death at one point, iirc.
It might have been the thinking of men in the church who taught that the earth was flat but it was not the word of God.
Isa 40:22 Appox.754 BC.
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in