Caption: Queen Christina of Sweden (1626--1689, reigned 1633--1654) (on the left) being instructed by Rene Descartes (1596--1650) in geometry.

A detail from a copy of Descartes at the court of Queen Christina of Sweden, Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France

Features:

1. On Protestant side of the religious divide, Copernicanism somehow never developed into a religious issue.

   It seems that the work of Galileo and Kepler, the telescope, and other things had largely evaporated Aristotelianism from religion. And without that support, purely Biblical objections to Copernicanism seemed far-fetched.

2. There was also the Copernicanism-based vortex theory of Rene Descartes (1596--1650). This very bad, but alluring, theory had a profound attraction for some of the physics-minded people in that time (e.g., Christiaan Huygens (1629--1695) (see Wikipedia: Mechanical explanations of gravitation: Vortex). Some folks found Copernicanism acceptable based on this theory---it's always possible to believe a true result for a wrong reason.