>>> No, my mistake was (at least) that it wasn’t Calvin in person, but rather Geneva... Apparently there was some amount of buzz among fairly modern historians that Calvin opposed Copernicus, but I’m reading that such a tension is held at least by this one author to be mythical; that its unlikely Calvin had enough knowledge of Copernicus to disdain him. <<<
If you have a source for your claim that Geneva (the city fathers?) had it out for Copernicus, I’d like to see it.
As for Calvin, the most from the scholarly input I’ve seen is that he was disdainful of heliocentrism per se. Given that heliocentrism had a history that stretched back to ancient Greece, and that the “scientific establishment” in Calvin’s time hadn’t exactly come out for one side or the other, it seems unfair to say he was either “out to get” Copernicus or scientifically benighted.
If you want to throw mud at Protestants in regard to this topic, my understanding is that Luther and Melanchthon would be more appropriate targets. However, don’t be surprised if athiests and agnostics don’t pick up that mud and throw it back at you. In a general effort to smear Christianity. It’s what they do.
>> If you have a source for your claim that Geneva (the city fathers?) had it out for Copernicus, I’d like to see it. <<
What I found was a source which rebuts that notion.
>> If you want to throw mud at Protestants in regard to this topic, my understanding is that Luther and Melanchthon would be more appropriate targets. <<
I’m not trying to throw mud; that’s why I retracted the comments. But believe me, there’s been a 400 year bombardment from the atheists and agnostics on the Catholic church on this issue; I don’t think I’m going to contribute to it.