[PatrickHenry]

The Church was never anti-science. It overreacted in response to Galileo, but that's about the only example in which the Church even comes close to being anti-science.

Giordano Bruno. Yes, his case can be argued both ways, but still ...

[curiosity]

We've gone over Bruno already. He was burned for pantheism, not heliocentrism. I'm not defending his treatment, but it's not an example of persecution of science.

If the Church were dogmatically opposed to heliocentrism, why didn't it burn Copernicus when he presented his model in Rome? And no, he did not wait until his death to present it. He held off publishing it, but he presented it numerous times before his death.