【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[听力原文] Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Poland in 1473. As a young man, he enrolled in the University of Krakow, where he may have come under the influence of Platonism. Copernicus also journeyed to Italy, where he may have read a lot of books about arguments for the sun being the center of the universe. Meanwhile, at that time, there were discussions about calendar reform, which required a thorough understanding of astronomy. During his study, Copernicus's interest in mathematics and astronomy was stimulated. Copernicus believed that truth was the product of simplicity, but the mathematical explanation of the solar system was quite complicated and hard to understand. In addition, there had been scholars among the ancients who did take what Aristotle said for everything. It is quite clear that Copernicus did not learn a body of new scientific truth but the courage to break with traditional truth taught in the universities. At that time, it was widely accepted in the Western world that the earth is the center of the universe. That was fundamental to the deeply held belief of the existence of God. However, toward the end of his stay in Italy, Copernicus became convinced that the sun lay at the center of the universe. So he set out on a lifelong task to work out mathematical explanations of how a sun centered universe operated. Because he did not want to engage in arguments with the followers of Aristotle, Copernicus published his findings only in 1543 in a work entitled On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. What made Copernicus interested in astronomy?