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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Whereas we all know that the universe is of a certain kind-- -- we can't even call it Copernican anymore-- poetry has this odd preference for Ptolemaic astronomy.

虽然我们都知道宇宙是怎样的-,现在即使哥白尼的理论也不完全正确了-,但是诗歌偏爱托勒密的宇宙观。

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