[qam1]

As for Copernicus’s sudden flash of insight, Stark quotes the eminent historian L. Bernard Cohen who called that idea “an invention of later historians.” Copernicus “was taught the essential fundamentals leading to his model by his Scholastic professors”—that is, Christian scholars. That model was “developed gradually by a succession of . . . Scholastic scientists over the previous two centuries.” Building upon their work on orbital mechanics, Copernicus added the “implicit next step.”

uummmm NO! If that were the case then why did they later burn Giordano Bruno at the stake for espousing the Copernican theory?

[Varda]

I've seen Bruno described as a "neoplatonist mystic" but I've never seen any evidence that he was burned for defending Copernicus.

[Campion]

Bruno was burned for witchcraft, not for his cosmological ideas.