“In 1674 Robert Hooke, curator of experiments for the British Royal Society, admitted, “Whether the Earth move or stand still hath been a problem, that since Copernicus revived it, hath much exercised the wits of our best modern astronomers and philosophers, amongst which notwithstanding there hath not been any one who hath found out a certain manifestation either of the one or the other.”

By Hooke's time a growing majority of scientists accepted Copernicanism, although, to a degree, they still did so in the face of scientific difficulties. “

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-case-against-copernicus/