Copernicus - The Most Important Harvinger of the Enlightenment

The papacy did not officially condemn copernicanism until 16 16, the better part of a century after copernicus death in 15 f three. Copernicus himself was a catholic canon who maintained his confession despite having close working relationships with protestants. Kepler said that copernicus basically believed in ptolemy's ideas about astral motion and wanted to show how the observed phenomena could be made to fit.