Italian and British Scientists want to exhume the body of 16th century astronomer Galileo for DNA tests to determine if his severe vision problems may have affected some of his findings.
科學家打算挖出16世紀天文學家伽利略的遺體驗DNA，以確定他嚴重的視力問題是否可能影響了他的一些研究發現。
Galileo, whom the Vatican condemned for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun, is known to have had intermittent eye problems for the second half of his life and was totally blind for his last two years.
因提出地球繞著太陽公轉而遭梵蒂岡譴責的伽利略，據悉他下半生受眼疾一再復發所苦，死前2年已經完全失明。
One of the "errors" that Galileo made, which Galluzzi suspects may have been attributed to his bad eyesight, is that he believed Saturn was not perfectly round but may have had an irregular, inflated side. He might have mistaken Saturn’s gaseous ring to surmise that it was formed of one planet with two moons as satellites.
伽利略所犯的其中一個「錯誤」，加路齊懷疑或許可能因為視力差造成的，就是他相信土星不是完美圓形，而是可能有不規則、突出的一邊。他或許看錯土星的氣環，誤以為土星有2顆衛星。
"If we knew exactly what was wrong with his eyes we could use computer models to recreate what he saw in his telescope," said Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of History and Science in Florence, the city where Galileo is buried.
「如果我們明確知道他的眼睛出了什麼問題，我們就能夠用電腦模型重現他在望遠鏡中看見了什麼」，加路齊，伽利略長眠之地佛羅倫斯的歷史暨科學博物館館長說。
新聞辭典
exhume：動詞，挖出。例句：The prosecutor ordered to exhume the victim’s body to investigate the cause of his death.（檢察官下令挖出受害者的遺體以調查他的死因。）
revolve around：動詞片語，以某物為中心旋轉、以某人、某物為重心。例句：She’s so ego and seems to think that the whole world revolves around her.（她很自以為是，以為她最重要。）
surmise：動詞、名詞，推測、猜測。例句：He has proved that his surmise is true.（他證明了他的推測是對的。）
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