He'd been imprisoned for his intellectual daring and affirming the Copernican view that the earth orbited around the sun.

因他对哥白尼的地心说的大胆的,认可和支持而被软禁着。

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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选