题目解析：
【题目翻译】为什么作者提到“十七世纪的科学革命”？
A：确定阿纳西曼德理论最初被认真考虑的时间。
B：介绍有助于阿纳西曼德思想发展的证据。
C：说明阿纳西曼德的一个思想影响了多久。
D：举一个例子，许多不成功的企图都是为了诋毁阿纳西曼德的思想。
【判定题型】：根据题干问法“why …… refer to ”，题目询问“xxxxxx”(文章引用内容)的修辞目的，可以判断本题为修辞目的题。
【关键词定位】：根据关键词“the seventeenth century”,定位到Passage 3 最后一句，原句为“Anaximander, observing the motions of the heavens around the polestar, was probably the first of the Greek philosophers to picture the sky as sphere completely surrounding Earth-an idea that, elaborated upon later, would prevail until the advent of the Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century. ”。
【引用内容分析】最后强调到17世纪这个观点才停止作为压倒性的观点，就是为了说明这个观点一直被人认同，到现代科学出现之前，它都是被认为有道理。
【选项分析】
选项A说是为了说明这个理论第一次被认真考虑的时间点，不符，错误
选项B说是为了告诉我们帮助发展这个观点的证据，不符，错误
选项C是说这个观点具有长久的影响力，选项C最符合题意。选择C。
选项D是说为了说明很多不成功的想去推翻这个观点的尝试。不符，错误
Anaximander's most important contributions, though, were in other areas. Although he did not accept that water was the prime element, he did believe that all life originated in the sea, and he was thus one of the first to conceive of this important idea. Anaximander is credited with drawing up the first world map of the Greeks and also with recognizing that Earth's surface was curved.He believed, though, that the shape of Earth was that of a cylinder rather than the sphere that later Greek philosophers would conjecture. Anaximander, observing the motions of the heavens around the polestar, was probably the first of the Greek philosophers to picture the sky as sphere completely surrounding Earth-an idea that, elaborated upon later, would prevail until the advent of the Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century .
