The origanal reaction was acceptance. The Catholic Church was all for it because it promoted the use of many knowledges. It wasn't until the protesants made it an issue that it became one.
Here is a great link. Its alot of reading, but very informative.
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Johannes Kepler
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Nicolaus Copernicus discovered that the earth WAS NOT the center of the universe using math and science to form his theories.
1403
Because the church at the time believed in holy things. The thought Nicolaus was a heretic. (He was spreading false rumors according to them)Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church never condemned the theories of Copernicus. As a matter of fact, the Church supported him and urged him to publish his theories, which he did with a dedication to the current Pope. Sixty-three years after his death, the protestants objected to his theories, and subsequently, when Galileo published similar theories, Copernicus (and Galileo's work was edited to say that it was only a theory, as neither man had actually proved their theories, and there were problems with some influential Churchman at the time who thought that the theories contradicted Sacred Scripture.
Johannes Kepler
in the late 1700s
he was very excited
The scientist that made highly accurate measurements that first disapproved the theories of Ptolmy and Copernicus was called Brahe.
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Nicolaus Copernicus discovered that the earth WAS NOT the center of the universe using math and science to form his theories.
He knew that the church would oppose his theories.
Galileo Galilei was the Italian astronomer who supported Copernicus's theories by using his own observations through a telescope to provide evidence for the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
1403