EVER SINCE the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mere recognition that not the sun, but the earth moves, has destroyed the whole cosmography of the ancients.

自从哥白尼体系被发现和证实以后，仅仅承认太阳不会运转，而是地球运转这一事实，就足以破除古人的全部宇宙观了。

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But as a fact even after the discovery of the law of Copernicus, the Ptolemaic worlds long continued to be a subject of study.

但是，就在哥白尼体系被发现以后，托勒美的天动说还被研究了很长时间。

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