| 词汇 | io |
| 词源 | Io; Europa; Ganymede; Callisto. These four objects or satel- lites that endlessly circle the planet Jupiter (the Roman Jove) weren’t named by Galileo, who discovered them, but by a rival astronomer, Simon Marius, who falsely claimed the discovery. Marius named them after the four objects of the god Jove’s sexual desire, even writing a poem to make it easy for all to re- member the names: “Io, Europa, the boy Ganymede, and like- wise Callisto,/ Aroused to excess the lust of Jove.” |
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