Copernicus theorized in 1543 that all of the planets that we knew of revolved not around the Earth, but the Sun, a system that was later upheld by Galileo at his own expense.

哥白尼在1543年提出了一个理论，即我们所知道的所有行星不是绕着地球转，而是绕着太阳转的，这一理论后来得到了伽利略的支持，但伽利略本人也为此付出了代价。

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Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made, he quickly built his own device from an organ pipe and spectacle lenses.

伽利略并没有发明望远镜，但在1609年听到有人制造了这种光学仪器后，他很快用管风琴管和眼镜镜片制造了自己的望远镜。

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Galileo was not merely ambitious when he dropped objects of varying weights from the Leaning Tower at Pisa and timed their fall to the ground.

伽利略从比萨斜塔上扔下不同重量的物体，并计算它们的下落时间。他要实现的不仅是他的勃勃雄心。

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It's not simply that Galileo represents the admiring observer of Satan who is finally able to arrive at a just sense of his moral spots and imperfections.

伽利略并不仅仅代表了最终终于到达的,撒旦的崇拜者,来为他的道德缺憾和不完美进行辩解。

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When Milton met him, Galileo would have been old and blind, not unimportant to the later Milton, and Galileo was under house arrest at his home in Fiesole.

当弥尔顿遇见他是，伽利略已经又老又瞎，而这点对后来的弥尔顿至关重要，伽利略当时被软禁在他菲索尔的家中。

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Look what happens to Galileo, who was lucky enough not to have been burn on the stake by his friend, the pope.

看看伽利略的遭遇吧,他足够幸运,没有被他的教皇朋友绑在火刑柱上烧死

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Not since Galileo redefined our understanding of the Earth's place in the universe has there been such a vigorous attack on what passes for conventional wisdom.

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Though direct revenues alone would not make Galileo profitable, adding in the indirect economic gains resulting from better navigation of land, sea and air vehicles would produce a benefit-to-cost ratio of as much as 4.6 to 1.

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But the launch of third-generation GPS satellites, capable of competing with Galileo, is not due to start until 2012, four years after Galileo is scheduled to begin operating.

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