Vasco da Gama and Columbus enlarged the world, and Copernicus enlarged the heavens.

达伽马和哥伦布扩大了人们认识的世界，哥白尼则扩大了宇宙的范畴。

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I'm sure most of those who were current with, and knew of the work of Galileo and Copernicus, died still believing the earth was the center of everything.

我敢肯定，大多数的受访者当中，目前，也知道这项工作的伽利略和哥白尼，死于仍然认为地球是中心的一切。

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Descartes received his stimulus from the new physics and astronomy of Copernicus, Galileo, and others.

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。

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Whatever might be said to accord faith and Copernicus, religion depends for its myth on a certain sense of scale.

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Aristarchus Plateau is the primary location for these transient events, says Crotts, followed by the craters of Plato, Grimaldi, Kepler, Copernicus and Tycho.

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Clavius started his career by taking on the reform of the Gregorian calendar, a project partly inspired by Copernicus and his book.

FORBES: A Long Forgotten Father of the Scientific Revolution