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According to the new school of scientists, technology is an overlooked force in expanding the horizons of scientific knowledge.

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问题      According to the new school of scientists, technology is an overlooked force in expanding the horizons of scientific knowledge. 【61】Science moves forward, they say, not so much through the insights of great men of genius as because of more ordinary things like improved techniques and tools. 【62】 "In short," a leader of the new school contends, "the scientific revolution, as we call it, was largely the improvement and invention and use of a series of instruments that expanded the reach of science in innumerable directions."
     【63】Over the years, tools and technology themselves as a source of fundamental innovation have largely been ignored by historians and philosophers of science. The modem school that hails technology argues that such masters as Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein, and inventors such as Edison attached great importance to and derived great benefit from, crafty information and technological devices of different kinds that were usable in scientific experiments.
     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 the earth at the center of all heavenly motions. 【64】 Galileo’s greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heaven 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. 【65】 Whether the Governments 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.
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本句是含有一个宾语从句的复合句，在宾语从句中还包含一个宾语从句。revolve around围绕……旋转；rather than而不是；turn…on…这个固定搭配的意思是“把……对准……”。句中主句较短，表语从句较长，可以将表语从句分译后置。另外，注意glory和turn…on…的词义的选择和确定。rather than a round the earth时要用增词法译为：“而不是围绕地球旋转”。
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答案伽利略最光辉的业绩是，他于1609年第一个把新发明的望远镜对准天空，以证实行星是围绕太阳旋转，而不是围绕地球旋转。
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