Yeah, that’s how most people tell it. When you only talk about how Copernicus’s ideas were reasonably well received, you make it sound like there was no hot water to be in. Plainly then the church must have already opposed such questioning enough to make publishers nervous, even if they could often get away with it. Between that and later Galileo already being censored before the Dialogue, I am going to say presenting all the trouble with heliocentrism as if it started with that is ahistorical scapegoating, thanks.
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