inhisownlifetimegalileowasthecentre伽利略在世时是激烈论战的中心。of violent controversy;
but the scientific dust has long since但是，自他逝世以来，那场科学上的纷争早settled,已平息了下来，andtodaywecanseeevenhisfamousclash甚至他和宗教法庭的著名冲突，我们今天也with the inquisition in something like能正确如实地看待。its proper perspective.
but,incontrast,itisonlyinmodern但是相比之下，对于科学史家来说，伽利略times that galileo has become a problem只是在现代才变成一个新的难题。child for historians of science.
the old view of galileo was delightfully令人高兴的是，过去对伽利略的看法并不复uncomplicated.杂。he was,above all,a man who experimented:
他首先是个实验工作者，of the aristotelians,知识。who put his questions to nature instead他向自然界而不是向古人提出问题，并大胆oftotheancients,andwhodrewhis地得出自己的结论。conclusions fearlessly.
hehadbeenthefirsttoturnatelescope他是第一个把望远镜对准天空的，观察到的tothesky,andhehadseenthereevidence论据足以把亚里士多德和托勒密一起推翻。enoughtooverthrowaristotleandptolemytogether.
he was the man who climbed the leaning他就是那个曾经爬上比萨斜塔，从塔顶向下抛掷各种重物的人；from the top,whorolledballsdowninclinedplanes,and他就是那个使球体沿斜面向下滚动，然后将then generalized the results of his many多次实验结果概括成著名的自由落体定律的experiments into the famous law of free人。fall.
butacloserstudyofthe但是，对那个时代的深化了解，尤其是以科evidence,supported by a deeper sense of学革命中哲学潜流的新意识为依据，the period,and particularly by a new consciousness进一步仔细研究，ofthephilosophicalundercurrentsinthescientific revolution,hasprofoundlymodifiedthisviewof就会极大地改变对伽利略的看法。galileo.
today,although the old galileo lives on今天，虽然已故的伽利略继续活在许多通俗in many popular writings,读物中，amonghistoriansofscienceanewandmore但在科学史家中间，一个新的更加复杂的伽sophisticated picture has emerged.利略的形象出现了。atthesametimeoursympathyfor与此同时，我们对伽利略的反对派的同情也balileo's opponents has grown somewhat.
有所增加。
immortal;
theyarousedgreatinterestatthe这些观察在当时引起了人们极大的兴趣，具time,theyhadimportanttheoretical有重要的理论意义，consequences,andtheyprovidedastriking并充分显示出了仪表和仪器的潜在力量。demonstrationofthepotentialitieshidden in instruments and apparatus.,ifweremember that to use a telescope at 's instrument?
was the philosopher who refused to lookthroughgalileo'stelescopemoreculpable than those who alleged that thespiralnebulaeobservedwithlordrosse'sgreat telescope in the eighteen-fortieswere scratches left by the grinder?
但是，如果我们想到，使用一架倍数有限的望远镜需要长期的经验和对自己仪器的熟悉程度，那么我们怎么能去责备观察了天空但没有看到伽利略所看到的东西的那些人呢？
某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空；到了19世纪40年代，有人硬把lordrosse高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁lord rosse造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗？
s spy-glass if we recall that in变出来的人们，his day,as for centuries before,curved glass was the popular ，illusion,untruth;
nature,how much more would a pair of them?
那么伽利略的两片曲面镜对自然的歪曲又该多大呢？
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