I agree. This is why I wrote: “The church was the main supporter of astronomy because of their interest in maintaining an accurate calendar. Christoph Scheiner

I agree. This is why I wrote: “The church was the main supporter of astronomy because of their interest in maintaining an accurate calendar. Christoph Scheiner mentioned in the article was a Jesuite astronomer respected by Galieleo and the two corresponded.” But here the subject is astronomy. I am not sure what other science the Church supported. But the fact that the Church was uncompromising about defending its cosmogonic dogmas is also proved by the burning of Giardano Bruno. They did not try to argue with Bruno and they did not try to reach a compromise. They just burned him. List of people burned as heretics (there are a quite a few of them): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_burned_as_heretics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_burned_as_heret... Not everyone in the list were cosmogonical heretics but my point is that the Church was uncompromising when it came to challenges to its dogmas.