Correct -in 1492, the scientific consensus was that the world was flat.
In the mid 1600's Galileo was excommunicated for claiming the earth revolved around the sun..
I don't think so. He "was" censured, arrested, and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life, but AFAIK, he died in full communion with the Catholic Church.
What is your evidence that the consesus was for a flat earth?
Sounds like Galileo was yesterday’s environmentalist. Fortunately, Galileo’s attention hound tactics didn’t amount to much for him personally. The hype made by anti-Catholics afterward are about as baseless as most other anti-Christian stories meant to scatter rather than gather.