IIRC what this comes down to is Copernicus had no desire to tangle with the church. I remember reading he has some footnotes that go “Hey, obviously it works in

IIRC what this comes down to is Copernicus had no desire to tangle with the church. I remember reading he has some footnotes that go “Hey, obviously it works in epicycles but the maths works really well with ellipses and heliocentrism.”