How long exactly did it take the Church to admit its mistake?
If "proof was all the Church was after", as you claimed, surely they admitted their error immediately once the proof was offered, right?
How long did that take, again?
I never said the Church handled it properly (in my opinion). All I pointed out is that the Church wasn't "anti-science," it was "pro-truth." Galileo couldn't convince his scientific contemporaries, let alone the Church, that what he was teaching as fact WAS fact. He had compelling evidence, yes; Newton is the one that had the PROOF. Galileo had a Hypothesis (a hypothesis which included that the orbits are circular, rather than elliptical-as Kepler proved- and that tides are caused by the movement of the Earth and not the Moon)...