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** In Galileo's day, heliocentrism was actually gaining [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment considerable consideration when considering]] the motion of the stars from an earthly perspective. A Catholic cleric up in Poland[[note]]We won't get into whether he was Polish--Website/TheOtherWiki has that covered--but he was definitely working in Poland (his main observatory in Frombork was ''de facto'' in the Polish part of Poland-Lithuania).[[/note]] named Nicolaus Copernicus (for whom is named "The Copernican Revolution") famously brought heliocentrism into vogue. He wrote a long text on the subject, ''On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs'', but put it into the care of a Protestant friend to be published after his death (the book, which contains an excellent account of heliocentricity, was dedicated to Pope Paul III). The friend, a Lutheran clergyman named Andreas Osiander, anticipated the massive ramifications this theory had for Protestant scriptural interpretation (Martin Luther seemed to condemn the new theory[[note]]Luther calling Copernicus an "upstart astrologer" probably didn't help.[[/note]]) and, the likelihood that it might be condemned; to counter this, Osiander prefaced the book with the claim that the descriptions within were theoretical only, and were only employed to simplify computations... something Copernicus never intended.
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** In Galileo's day, heliocentrism was actually gaining [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment considerable consideration when considering]] the motion of the stars from an earthly perspective. A Catholic cleric up in Poland[[note]]We won't get into whether he was Polish--Website/TheOtherWiki has that covered--but he was definitely working in Poland (his main observatory in Frombork was ''de facto'' in the Polish part of Poland-Lithuania).[[/note]] named Nicolaus Copernicus (for whom is named "The Copernican Revolution") famously brought heliocentrism into vogue. He wrote a long text on the subject, ''On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs'', but put it into the care of a Protestant friend to be published after his death (the book, which contains an excellent account of heliocentricity, was dedicated to Pope Paul III).III, and its publication was encouraged by Cardinal Nikolaus von Schönberg and Bishop Tiedemann Giese). The friend, a Lutheran clergyman named Andreas Osiander, anticipated the massive ramifications this theory had for Protestant scriptural interpretation (Martin Luther seemed to condemn the new theory[[note]]Luther calling Copernicus an "upstart astrologer" probably didn't help.[[/note]]) and, the likelihood that it might be condemned; to counter this, Osiander prefaced the book with the claim that the descriptions within were theoretical only, and were only employed to simplify computations... something Copernicus never intended.
