http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2009/new/mar/2/today-int2.htm 《中英对照读新闻》 Scientists want DNA tests on Galileo for "eye test" 科学家打算为 伽利略验DNA做「视力检查」 ◎管淑平 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. 科学家打算挖出16世纪天文学家伽利略的遗体验DNA，以确定他严重的视 力问题是否可能影响了他的一些研究发现。 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. 因提出地球绕着太阳公转而遭梵蒂冈谴责的伽利略，据悉他下半生受眼疾 一再复发所苦，死前2年已经完全失明。 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个「错误」，加路齐怀疑或许可能因为视力差造成的 ，就是他相信土星不是完美圆形，而是可能有不规则、突出的一边。他或 许看错土星的气环，误以为土星有2颗卫星。 "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. 「如果我们明确知道他的眼睛出了什麽问题，我们就能够用电脑模型重现 他在望远镜中看见了什麽」，加路齐，伽利略长眠之地佛罗伦斯的历史暨 科学博物馆馆长说。 -- ※ Origin: 交大次世代(bs2.to) ◆ From: 59-113-136-203.dynamic.hinet.net