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He was brave enough to question whether they really were caused by gods.
但他勇于質(zhì)疑 月食是否真實(shí)神所造成
Aristarchus was a true scientific pioneer.
阿里斯塔克是真正的科學(xué)先鋒
He studied the heavens carefully and reached a bold conclusion.
他仔細(xì)研究天象后
He realized the eclipse was actually the shadow of the Earth passing over the Moon and not a divine event.
他發(fā)現(xiàn)食只是地球的影子 遮住月球 而非神跡
Liberated by this discovery,
這項(xiàng)發(fā)現(xiàn)讓他跳脫窠臼
he was able to work out what was really going on above his head
得以推論出 天空中的真相
and draw diagrams that showed the true relationship
繪出真正的相對(duì)位置圖
of the Sun...The Earth...And the Moon.
包括太陽(yáng) 地球 以及月球
From there,he reached even more remarkable conclusions.
他并依此得出更驚人的結(jié)論
He deduced that the Earth was not the center of the Universe,
他推論地球并非宇宙中心
as everyone had thought,but instead orbits the Sun.
不是和眾人所想的一樣 相反是繞著太陽(yáng)運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)
In fact,understanding this arrangement explains all eclipses.
事實(shí)上了解了這相對(duì)關(guān)系 就能解釋所有的食現(xiàn)象
When the Moon casts its shadow on the Earth,that's a solar eclipse.
月球的影子遮住地球時(shí) 就出現(xiàn)了日食
And when the Earth shades the Moon,that's a lunar eclipse.
而當(dāng)?shù)厍蛘谧≡虑?就形成了月食
But Aristarchus took it even further.
但阿里斯塔克還進(jìn)一步推論
He suggested the stars were not chinks in the floor of heaven,
他推測(cè)星星并不是的天頂?shù)牧芽p
as his contemporaries believed,
非其他人所認(rèn)為
but that stars were other suns like ours,
而是其它太陽(yáng) 就和我們的一樣
only a very long way away.
只不過(guò)距離非常遙遠(yuǎn)
