Kind of like we man-caused global warming “skeptics.”
the full excerpt (this is a clip from an excerpt of the book) has some details about Copernicus’ only astronomy student, who besides being a Lutheran to C’s R Catholicism, was in the manner of the young all fired up about his received philosophy about astronomy. Aristotle’s writings on the subject helped hold back the science of astronomy until the present day — the last blow to one of his idiocies was struck in 1994, when the fragments of SL-9 crashed one by one into Jupiter, leaving Earth-sized scars in the Jovian atmosphere.