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。

This principle was famously demonstrated by Galileo Galilei some 400 years ago.

大约400年前，伽利略·伽利雷证明了这一原理。

What Galileo viewed through his "far looker" was a blurry mess compared to what we can see today.

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。

Galileo is the only contemporary personage, the only seventeenth-century figure, even so much as mentioned in Paradise Lost.

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。

That was the Galileo simile.

这是伽利略的比喻。