My point was maybe this had something to do with why it "didn't really catch on." Given how viciously the idea was attacked by the Roman Inquisition as being heretical it was probably not the first time the church encountered the concept.
IIRC, monks were the predominant scribes in the western world pre-printing press. If intellectual ideas didn't conform to religious canon they could've theoretically been nearly completely erased via censorship only to be "newly discovered" by Copernicus etc.
My point was maybe this had something to do with why it "didn't really catch on." Given how viciously the idea was attacked by the Roman Inquisition as being heretical it was probably not the first time the church encountered the concept.
IIRC, monks were the predominant scribes in the western world pre-printing press. If intellectual ideas didn't conform to religious canon they could've theoretically been nearly completely erased via censorship only to be "newly discovered" by Copernicus etc.