Why did the ancient Greeks believe that the Earth was the center of the universe?

为什么古希腊人坚信地球是宇宙的中心呢？

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If the Sun was at the center of the universe, things would fall toward the Sun and away from the Earth, which of course they didn't.

如果太阳在宇宙的中心，物体就会离开地球向太阳落去，但事实显然没有。

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It was so intuitive, so sensible that the Earth was the center of the universe that astronomers found ways to explain those seemingly inconsistent phenomena within the geocentric view.

天文学家们认为，“地球是宇宙的中心”这种说法是非常直观、合情合理的，以至于当他们发现与地心论不符的现象时，也会想办法找理由去解释。

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It was the center of their universe. And it was called the 'hydraulic city' because it had really remarkably massive arrays of barays, which are these giant water tanks and a series of canals and interconnected waterways that was really unparalleled in the ancient world in that part of the world."

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It's halfway up Mount Parnassus and it was thought by the Greeks to be the Omphalos, the navel of the universe, the center in every way. Why?

它坐落在帕尔纳索斯山半山腰上,希腊人称它为Omphalos,是世界之脐,即世界的中心,为什么呢

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