That's a bit of an anachronistic view, there really wasn't much secular science at the time, the vast majority of science was done under the patronage and suppo

That's a bit of an anachronistic view, there really wasn't much secular science at the time, the vast majority of science was done under the patronage and support church officials (Catholic or Protestant). Copernicus was a canon of the Catholic church. Kepler, a Lutheran, did his foundational work at Graz under Catholic patronage. Galileo did his work under the patronage of cardinals and popes. There were exceptions, Tycho Brahe had noble and royal sponsors but it was as much for his alchemical and astrological studies as it was for his astronomy.