Descartes received his stimulus from the new physics and astronomy of Copernicus, Galileo, and others.
笛卡儿从哥白尼、伽利略和其他科学家的新物理学和天文学中获得了灵感。
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During the Renaissance, the great minds of Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei demonstrated the power of scientific study and discovery.
Copernicus theorized in 1543 that all of the planets that we knew of revolved not around the Earth, but the Sun, a system that was later upheld by Galileo at his own expense.