数学家查尔斯•赫顿的在测量大山的质量的问题上贡献巨大，不过因为无法很科学地估计土石的密度，略微缺乏信服。令人意外的是，一个不起眼的乡村牧师约翰•米歇尔把注意力转向这个问题。此人研究过地磁引力，地震波，甚至比任何人都早200年就假想过黑洞。比大师级的科学家更有先见之明哦~~~

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书本的朗读语音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好学着模仿哦~~~！！
因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文,然后听写单词或词组(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。请边听写边理解文意，根据上下文注意各句标号，这样有助于提高正确率。



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Hutton
William Herschel




Not everyone was satisfied with the results, however. The [-1-] of the Schiehallion experiment was that it was not possible to get a truly accurate figure without knowing the actual density of the mountain. [---2---]

One improbable-seeming person [-3-] was a country [-4-] named John Michell, who resided in the lonely Yorkshire village of Thornhill. Despite his remote and [-5-] humble situation, Michell was one of the great scientific thinkers of the 18th century and much [-6-] for it.

Among a great deal else, he [-7-] the wavelike nature of earthquakes, conducted much original research into magnetism and gravity, and, quite extraordinarily, envisioned the possibility of black holes 200 years before anyone else—a leap of [-8-] deduction that not even Newton could make. [---9---]



shortcoming For convenience, Hutton had assumed that the mountain had the same density as ordinary stone, about 2.5 times that of water, but this was little more than an educated guess. who turned his mind to the matter parson comparatively esteemed perceived intuitive When the German-born musician William Herschel decided his real interest in life was astronomy, it was Michell to whom he turned for instruction in making telescopes, a kindness for which planetary science has been in his debt ever since.
然而，不是人人都对结果感到很满意。斯希哈林山实验的不足之处在于，你不知道该山的真正密度，因此不可能得出一个真正确切的数字。为了方便起见，赫顿假设这座山的密度与普通石头相等，即大约是水的密度的2.5倍，但这不过是根据经验所作的估计。 　　有一个人把注意力转向这个问题。他是个乡下牧师，名叫约翰•米歇尔，家住约克郡人迹稀少的桑希尔村。尽管环境偏僻而简陋，米歇尔却是18世纪一位伟大的科学思想家，深受人们的尊敬。 　　尤其是，他认识到地震的波动性质，对磁场和引力进行了大量创造性的研究，比任何人都早200年设想过黑洞的存在，这是相当了不起的--连牛顿都跨不出这么一大步。当德国出生的音乐家威廉•赫歇尔认为自己生活中的真正兴趣是天文学的时候，他就是向米歇尔讨教了天文望远镜的制作方法。自那以来，行星科学界一直对他怀有感激之情。