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This view was reinforced by the idea that our perfect blue planet
此一观点还收到另一论述所强化 亦即人们完美的蓝色星球
was quite still at the center of it all,
是静止于宇宙的中心
that all the stars and planets rotated around the Earth
所有恒星与行星都绕着地球而行
like some carefully designed clockwork.
有如精心设计的钟表齿轮
Aristarchus' idea to the contrary had been long forgotten.
阿里斯塔克与此相反的论述 早就被人们所遗忘
But humans are naturally inquisitive,and some, such as Galileo Galilei,
但人类生性好奇 还有些 像伽利略这样的人
couldn't help but look at God's clockwork once more.
忍不住多瞧一眼上帝的钟表齿轮
It was 1609,and this time,the results would change everything.
那时是1609年 这次的 结果对后世有深远的影响
Galileo is the founder of modern-day science and one of my heroes.
伽利略是现代科学的始祖 也是我心目中的英雄
He thought,as I do,that if you looked at the Universe closely enough,
他和我有同样想法 只要能近一点观察宇宙
you could discern what was really going on.
就能发觉真相
He was so determined that he perfected lenses that, for the first time,
他锲而不舍地 打造出完美的镜片 第一次
could magnify the night sky by 20 times.
能将夜空放大二十倍
Carefully,he assembled them into a telescope.
他小心翼翼地将镜片置入望远镜中
From his house in Padua,he used this telescope to study Jupiter night after night
从帕度亚的家中 他用这座望远镜 研究木星 夜复一夜
and made a wonderful discovery three tiny dots very close to the giant planet.
从而有了惊喜的发现 有3个小点很靠近这颗巨大行星
