Copernicus, Geogreticus and Melancthon

Philip melancthon promoted the idea of copernicuss as part of his educational reform which spread from wittenberg along with lutheranism. The result was that lutheran universities, standardly, had at least one chair of mathematics held by a professor who was typically astronomer. By contrast, in england, where melancthon's ideas did not hold such sway, there was not a single university chair of mathematics in the whole of the sixteenth century. It was an effect much more noticeable than parallax, according to one modern day scholar.