Well, that makes sense, kind of, that Milton had clearly admired the astronomer.

这可以说得通，弥尔顿非常崇拜这名天文学家。

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And it is obviously referential to Vermeer's "The Astronomer."

对于弗米尔的“天文学家’,有明显的参考价值“

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The rebellious artist Milton and the rebellious astronomer Galileo are continually threatening to lapse into some sort of identity with Satan himself.

叛逆的艺术家弥尔顿，和同样叛逆的天文学家伽利略,不断的陷入某种对撒旦的确认的,危险之中。

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Like the sun, it was thought to be a perfect heavenly body and, as you probably know, it was Galileo though -the Tuscan artist, the Italian astronomer 0 -who disproved just that assumption in 1610 when he published the Sidereus Nuncius .

正如太阳那样，它被认为是完美的天体，也是伽利略,-那个托斯卡纳大师，意大利的天文学家,-他驳斥了1610年的假设0,在他出版的那本中。

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