Both these authors are devoted to the Church, but unlike Monsignor Marini, are too upright to resort to the pious fraud of suppressing documents or interpolating pretended facts.
The Protestant Church was hardly less energetic against this new astronomy than the mother Church.

The sacred science of the first Lutheran Reformers was transmitted as a precious legacy, and in the next century was made much of by Calovius.

His great learning and determined orthodoxy gave him the Lutheran leadership.

Utterly refusing to look at ascertained facts, he cited the turning back of the shadow upon King Hezekiah's dial and the standing still of the sun for Joshua, denied the movement of the earth, and denounced the whole new view as clearly opposed to Scripture.

To this day his arguments are repeated by sundry orthodox leaders of American Lutheranism.
As to the other branches of the Reformed Church, we have already seen how Calvinists, Anglicans, and, indeed, Protestant sectarians generally, opposed the new truth.( 68) (68) For Clovius, see Zoeckler, Geschichte, vol.i, pp.