It should be noted that the FMason Luther( & I believe Calvin) was Dogmatic Geo-centrist,,,
They all were up to then, both Catholic and Protestant. However, this was Martin Luther’s best-known doctrine:
‘If someone equipped with the tools of reading could reinterpret the text of either the Bible or the Book of Nature – independent of intervening layers of authority – whole new possibilities of understanding could emerge in the natural sciences as well as in theology.’ --- The First Copernican, p.21.
Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-1574) was a student and later mathematics professor at Martin Luther’s University of Wittenberg. A recent informative book, however, written by Professor Dennis Danielson, tells the story of the close relationship between Copernicus and Georg Rheticus. His research reveals that were it not for Rheticus and other Protestants of the Reformation, De revolutionibus most probably would never have seen the light of day. Accordingly, Rheticus’s alliance with Copernicus is vital to the story of the Copernican revolution and Galilean reformation.
‘The very idea of Reformation was infectious, and Rheticus embraced it. Lutheran fervor mixed with humanist scholarship – the translation and reinterpretation of ancient texts – not only produced monuments such as the Luther Bible but also nurtured a keen sense of discovery through reading. Given the long-standing analogy between the book of God’s words (the Bible) and the book of God’s works (the Creation), there was also a natural analogy between the sets of tools used to interpret these two books: literacy and linguistic knowledge on the one hand and mathematics applied to careful observations on the other. Not until 1623 would Galileo so clearly proclaim that “this grand book, the universe… is written in the language of mathematics.” But some of the roots of this idea go back to what Luther was doing in the 1520s-30s.’ --- The First Copernican, pp.20-21.
In 1541, the script of De revolutionibus was completed. Copernicus gave it to Rheticus who in turn had arranged with Johannes Petreius, a Nuremberg publisher to print and distribute it in book form. Years earlier, in 1525, the German town of Nuremberg had accepted the Protestant reformation and soon thereafter no Catholic was permitted to become a citizen there. With 21 printing presses in the town, it became the media capital of the Reformation, producing books, pamphlets and broadsheets written by the likes of Erasmus, Luther, Melanchthon, and even England’s King Henry VIII, ensuring the ideas of the Reformation became publicly known throughout Europe. Nuremberg also had a reputation for publishing all kinds of scientific books, so one can see why De revolutionibus was so appealing to the reformers there, containing as it did ‘a new understanding of the natural sciences and theology.’ Copernicus’s book, we have to admit now, was in fact as much a product of the Protestant Reformation as it was the outcome of astronomical speculations by a Catholic.