【考研真題】1994年翻譯(2/2)
來源:滬江聽寫酷
2014-03-22 04:00
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Galileo
Ptolemy
vs.?
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The centerpiece of the argument of a technology-yes, genius-no advocate was an analysis of Galileo's role at the start of the scientific revolution. The wisdom of the day was derived from Ptolemy, an astronomer of the second century, whose elaborate system of the sky put Earth at the center of all heavenly motions. Galileo's greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the Earth. But the real hero of the story, according to the new school of scientists, was the long evolution in the improvement of machinery for making eye-glasses.
Federal policy is necessarily involved in the technology vs. genius dispute. Whether the Government should increase the financing of pure science at the expense of technology or vice versa often depends on the issue of which is seen as the driving force.
鼓吹技術(shù)、否認(rèn)天才的支持者的論據(jù)核心是分析了科學(xué)革命初期伽利略的作用。那時的聰明才智來源于第二世紀(jì)的天文學(xué)家托勒密,他創(chuàng)立了詳盡的太空體系,該體系把地球置于所有天體運動的中心。伽利略最光輝的業(yè)績在于他在 1609年第一個把新發(fā)明的望遠鏡對準(zhǔn)天空,旨在證實行星圍繞太陽旋轉(zhuǎn)而不是圍繞地球旋轉(zhuǎn)。但是,在新學(xué)派科學(xué)家看來,這件事件真正成功的因素是鏡片制造機械長期以來不斷的改進和發(fā)展。
聯(lián)邦政府的政策必然要卷入到技術(shù)與天才之爭中去。政府究竟是以減少對技術(shù)經(jīng)費的投入來增加對純理論科學(xué)的經(jīng)費投入,還是相反,這往往取決于把哪一方看作是驅(qū)動力量。