Still, Ptolemy's idea of a geocentric Universe stuck around for well over a thousand years.

然而托勒密的地心宇宙模型仍然维持了一千多年。

Those gentry who wore georgette thought that the universe was geocentric.

那些穿着乔其纱的贵族们认为宇宙是以地球为中心的。

We call this the geocentric world picture, or in other words, the belief that everything revolves around the earth.

我们称之为地心世界图景，或者换句话说，相信一切都围绕地球旋转。

The thing is, the simple geocentric model couldn’t quite explain all that we see when we watch the skies.

问题是，简单的地心模型无法完全解释我们在观看天空时所看到的一切。

" Galileo Galilei: " Yes, it challenged the accepted geocentric model that placed Earth at the center of the universe.

” 伽利略：“是的，它挑战了公认的将地球置于宇宙中心的地心说模型。

This post a heliocentric view of the universe rather than geocentric version widely accepted at the time and based on the book of Joshua.

这个提出了宇宙的的太阳中心论而不是当时普遍接受的根據Joshua書的地球中心說法。

And in the years that followed Ptolemy's work both European and Islamic scientists started to question aspects of his geocentric model.

在托勒密工作之后的几年里，欧洲和伊斯兰科学家开始质疑他的地心模型的各个方面。

Before each of their revelations, many thinkers at the time had sustained more ancient ways of thinking , including the geocentric view that the Earth was at the centre of our universe.

在他们揭示每一个科学真理之前，当时的许多思想家一直沿袭着旧时的思维方式， 包括地球是我们宇宙中心的地心说。

In full disclosure, the scientific community has bet on the wrong horse before: alchemy, the geocentric model, spontaneous generation, and the interstellar aether are just a few of many theories discarded in favor of better ones.

总而言之，科学家们不是没有做出过错误的判断：炼金术，地心说，无生源说，还有星际以太这些只是被正确理论抛弃的 众多理论中的一小部分。