笛卡儿从哥白尼、伽利略和其他科学家的新物理学和天文学中获得了灵感。
Descartes received his stimulus from the new physics and astronomy of Copernicus, Galileo, and others.
伽利略提出了一种新的假设。
伽利略通过他的“望远镜”所看到的景象，与我们今天所看到的相比，是混沌不清的。
What Galileo viewed through his "far looker" was a blurry mess compared to what we can see today.
这是望远镜出现前欧洲天文学家的想法，这就说到了我们的老朋友伽利略。
This was the thinking of European astronomers until the introduction of the telescope, which brings us to our old friend, Galileo.
斯蒂芬·霍金于1942年1月8日出生在英国牛津，正好是伽利略去世300年后。
Stephen Hawking was born on January 8th, 1942, exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo in Oxford, England.
伽利略是唯一的当代人物，唯一的17世纪人物，甚至在《失乐园》里也有提及。
Galileo is the only contemporary personage, the only seventeenth-century figure, even so much as mentioned in Paradise Lost.
今天我们看到的把初始的歌剧组合起来的这群人，是包括伽利略的父亲文森索在内的一个群体。
The group that put the first operas together that we have today was a group of men that included Galileo's father Vincenzo.
比萨是著名科学家伽利略的故乡，它的大学也闻名于世，因为欧洲一些最重要的大学都在这座城市。
Home of the famous scientist Galileo, Pisa is also known for its universities because the city is home of some of the most important universities in Europe.
1995年，伽利略号太空船捕捉到关于木星大气层的数据——数据中心缺少大部分预测的大气水，这挑战了关于木星结构的主流理论。
In 1995 the Galileo spacecraft captured data about Jupiters atmosphere—namely, the absence of most of the predicted atmospheric water—that challenged prevailing theories about Jupiters structure.
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。
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.
1995年，伽利略号宇宙飞船捕获了关于木星大气的数据——也就是说，大部分预测的大气中没有水——这挑战了关于木星结构的主流理论。
In 1995 the Galileo spacecraft captured data about Jupiter's atmosphere—namely, the absence of most of the predicted atmospheric water—that challenged prevailing theories about Jupiter's structure.
1995年，伽利略号宇宙飞船捕捉到了木星大气的数据——也就是说，大部分预测到的大气水的存在——这挑战了关于木星结构的主流理论。
In 1995 the Galileo spacecraft captured data about Jupiter's atmosphere—namely, the absence of most of the predicted atmospheric water—that challenged prevailing theories about Jupiter's structure.
1995年，伽利略号太空船捕获了关于木星大气层的数据——也就是说，大部分预测的大气中没有水——这挑战了关于木星结构的主流理论。
In 1995 the Galileo spacecraft captured data about Jupiter's atmosphere– namely, the absence of most of the predicted atmospheric water–that challenged prevailing theories about Jupiter's structure.
大约400年前，伽利略·伽利雷证明了这一原理。
This principle was famously demonstrated by Galileo Galilei some 400 years ago.
文艺复兴时期，尼古拉·哥白尼，约翰尼斯·开普勒和伽利略·伽利雷等人的伟大思想展现了科学研究和发现的力量。
During the Renaissance, the great minds of Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei demonstrated the power of scientific study and discovery.
伽利略的思想远远超越了他所处的时代。
Galileo's ideas were well in advance of the age in which he lived.
伽利略所提出的观点是，太阳黑子确实是太阳的某一个特征，但他不知道是什么特征。
What Galileo proposed was that sunspots were indeed a feature of the Sun, but he didn't know what kind of feature.
伽利略对木星卫星的观察表明，托勒密关于天体运动的理论是错误的。
Galileo's observations of Jupiter's satellites showed that the Ptolemaic theory of the motion of celestial bodies is false.
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。
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.
由于哥白尼的行星运动理论与托勒密的解释不一致，伽利略对木星卫星的观察证明了哥白尼理论的正确性。
Since the Copernican theory of planetary motion is inconsistent with the Ptolemaic account, Galileo's observations of Jupiter's satellites proved the truth of the Copernican theory.
我们都知道，爱因斯坦、牛顿和伽利略等伟大的科学家并没有从学校学到很多东西。
As we all know, great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didn't learn many things from school.
和伽利略一样，历史上的所有伟人都充满好奇心，他们会孜孜不倦地问：“为什么？”
Like Galileo, all the great names in history were curious and asked in discontent, "Why?
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。
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.
这是全球四大导航网络之一，其他三个是美国的全球定位系统、俄罗斯的格洛纳斯和欧盟的伽利略。
It's one of four global (全球的) navigation networks, including the United States' GPS, Russia's GLONASS and the European Union's Galileo.
伽利略和笛卡尔用惯性的概念将其取代。
Galileo and Descartes replaced that with the idea of inertia.
试想一个有伽利略，牛顿，达尔文，但没有煤和石油的世界。
Imagine a world with Galileo, Newton and Darwin but without coal and oil.
他开始在一地经济，牛顿和伽利略开始物理。
He started economics in a way that Newton and Galileo started physics.
他问道：为什么伽利略出现在比萨而不是巴特那或者北京呢？
Why, he asked, did the science of Galileo emerge "in Pisa but not in Patna or Peking"?
显然他们抱怨的不是伽利略或者爱因斯坦这样早期的哲学家。
They complain less about Galileo and Einstein's thought experiments, and those of earlier philosophers.
如果不是被云遮挡，伽利略可能已成为海王星的发现者。
If it hadn't been for clouds, Galileo may have been the discoverer of Neptune.
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