What's even more mythical (sorry, if this is off topic) is the absolute myth that Copernican astronomy was superior to Ptolemy's. Or that Copernicus suffered any push back from the church. (Copernicus was a Cannon, an ecclesiastic sinecure.) Martin Luther, personally attacked and derided the Copernican heresy, the Pope was utterly indifferent. Copernican astronomy was arguably a scientific set back and would have been worse than a dead end, had he not inspired Kepler to invent a truly revolutionary model based on Tyco’s observation.
Johann Widmanstetter was a proponent of Copernicanism and a secretary to Popes Clement VII and Paul III. He explained the theory to Clement VII, presumably in the terms that we find in the preface to the Revolutionibus, which assert its purely mathematical nature. Clement was pleased, but died in 1534, and the work was dedicated to his successor, Paul III.
If the work was nothing but an ornament to these Popes, Copernicus and his functionaries worried a great deal about its reception by the Church. It's a long and well known story, with the finished work and its apologetic preface coming into Copernicus' hands the very day he died.
It was fifteen Popes later, under Urban VIII, that Galileo received his sentence of condemnation:
We say, pronounce, sentence, and declare that you, the said Galileo, by reason of the matters adduced in trial, and confessed by you as above, have rendered yourself in the judgement of this Holy Office vehemently suspected of heresy, namely of having believed and held the doctrine which is false and contrary to the sacred and divine Scriptures - that the Sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west and that the Earth moves and is not the center of the world; ...