1·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。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·I want to be the next Copernicus!
我要成为下一个哥白尼！
3·Copernicus and Kepler built on the observations of Tycho Brahe and found that we were not the center of the universe; other planets revolved around the sun, and so do we.
哥白尼和开普勒在第谷的观察数据基础上发现，我们并不是这个宇宙的中心，其它行星围绕着太阳旋转，我们的地球也是如此。
4·Copernicus's first speculations on the subject appear in a 40-page booklet printed before 1514, which he circulated to some friends and colleagues.
哥白尼的第一个推测出现在印于1514年前的一本40页的小册子上，他把小册子分发给了他的一些朋友和同事。
5·If it were only for the sake of an idea Copernicus would have smashed the existent macrocosm and Columbus would have foundered in the Sargasso Sea.
如果仅仅是为了一个观念，哥白尼本会砸烂整个现存宇宙的，哥伦布也会葬身马尾藻海。