Sure, that's why you can check how long the heliocentric books (both Galileo's and of Copernicus too!) remained banned by the Church as heretical (until 1835, so Galileo's was banned for 202 years after the sentence), in spite of effectively everybody knowing that the heliocentric view is right: Newton's Principia was published in ‎1687 (completely protected from the Catholic influence), just 52 years after the sentence and almost 150 years before the Church's ban was lifted, and the Principia was giving the formulas to calculate how the planets, including Earth, exactly circle the Sun (more exactly, the center of the mass, determined by the much bigger mass of the Sun). The discovery of which had immense influence in the whole Europe, and even the formation of the US (by removing the religion from the Constitution of the state in 1789, also more decades before the Church ban was lifted. And some decades before the Constitution some America's non-Catholic priest claimed that Ben Franklin, by inventing the lighting rod, causes the God to make the bigger earthquakes instead of punishing the sinners with "just" the lightning strikes. That's how backwards were these who opposed the science, but they were very real. Almost like now).