Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?

某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空；到了19世纪40年代，有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。

The observation that finally unlocked this mystery was made just a few years later when Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason observed the great spiral nebula M31 in Andromeda, using what was at the time the largest telescope in the world.

仅仅几年之后，埃德温·哈勃和弥尔顿·胡马森就用当时世界上最大的望远镜观测了仙女座的巨大螺旋星云 M31，最终解开了这个谜团。