Copernicus lived in the 15th century. Catholics had believed in a spherical earth for many centuries before he was born. Among them were St Albert the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas.
St. Albert and St. Thomas neither taught or expounded on spherical earth. Even if they were persuaded by the arguments of their day, they didn't teach it. In fact, flat earth predates both because Enoch walked with God and described what he saw: a flat earth. Moses was one of the greatest cosmographers of all time and was also a flat earther. And as we see here, Anne Catherine Emmerich shows us that the devil was hard at work undermining Enoch and Moses and the words of scripture very early on.
•(Hom) was of a large stature like a giant, and of a very serious, peculiar turn of mind. He wore a long robe, he was like a priest. He used to go alone to the summit of the mountain and there spend night after night. He observed the stars and practiced magic. He was taught by the devil to arrange what he saw in vision into a science, a religion, and thereby he vitiated and counteracted the teaching of Enoch. The evil inclinations inherited from his mother mingled in him with the pure hereditary teachings of Enoch and Noe to which the children Thubal clung. Hom, by his false visions and revelations misinterpreted and changed the ancient truth. He studied and pondered and watched the stars and had visions which, by Satan's agency, showed him deformed images of truth. Through their resemblance to truth, his doctrine and idolatry became the mothers of heresy. Page 48 The Life of Jesus Christ
And from the year 550 Catholic Monk Cosmas Indiocopleustes:
What then can be more absurd than the Pagan doctrine that the earth is in the middle of the universe? Here then the Pagans are at war with divine Scripture; but, not content with this, they are at war also with common sense itself and the very laws of nature, declaring, as they do, that the earth is a central sphere, and that there are Antipodes, who must be standing head-downward and on whom the rain must fall up. --Introduction, Christian Topography, Cosmas Indiocopleustes 550 AD