I am Da Song

Chapter 300 Hengqu Astronomy and the Renaissance

In the Song Dynasty, the development of astronomy obviously far surpassed that of classical mechanics.

The fierce refutation of the two children's debates is not because Confucian scholars are fantasizing about the text.

Instead, the two sides quoted scriptures and discussed the most reliable astronomical issues in a practical manner.

For example, people in the Ming Dao school firmly advocate the theory of earthquakes, and they advocate the theory: "The earth is constantly moving, but people don't feel it. It's like a person sitting in a big boat with the blindfold closed, and the boat doesn't feel it."

That is to say, the earth is always in motion, so it is far away from the sun in the morning and close to the sun at noon.

The Jinggong school scoffed at this, because it couldn't explain why the sun rose in the east and set in the west, and it simply disappeared at night!

Therefore, the view of the Jinggong school is the theory of the heliocentric square, directly quoting the famous saying of "Shangshu": "The earth has four travels, the winter solstice goes north and west for [-] miles, the summer solstice goes south and east for [-] miles, spring and autumn It's divided into two."

That is to say, the earth will travel around the sun, the earth travels [-] miles from north to west at the winter solstice, and [-] miles from south to east at the summer solstice.The vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox are divided into them.

But this can't explain how the earth runs around.

Not long after the debate, Guan Xue became the most prominent school in the Song Dynasty, hoisting up all the scholars in the world with one hand.

The other schools could only insist on being bruised and swollen by Guan Xue.On the one hand, he secretly studied every piece of Zhang Zai's knowledge desperately.

Guan Xue's proposition is really too advanced, so advanced that it throws off the heliocentric theory by hundreds of years.

The main reason is that Zhang Zai, the founder of Guan Xueyou, is an academic sage. He alone studied heaven and man, and the knowledge he proposed pushed the astronomy of the Song Dynasty to advance by leaps and bounds.

Zhang Zai advocated: "The stars do not move, they are purely related to the sky, and they are also those who revolve with the floating sun and are not poor. The sun, the moon and the five stars go against the sky and cover the earth."

That is to say, the solar system does not move in the sky, but rotates in situ.And the five stars, including the earth, revolve around the sun counterclockwise.

And the rotation speeds of these five planets are not the same, so sometimes the phenomenon of connecting beads will occur.

But after Guan Xue introduced this set of knowledge, he was also beaten with black and blue nose and swollen face.

One of the most questioned questions in the world is, since such a big star is rotating, how can it be possible to stay in place?Is there any common sense?Is compliance natural?
So after being besieged by the world, Guan Xue decisively improved his academic views.

That is to say, the sun is rotating and moving, and the other stars follow the sun and move forward together in the black and yellow universe.

It just means that the sun runs too fast, and human beings like mayflies cannot feel the movement of the sun in the universe.

Just like human beings can't feel the movement of the earth.

This assertion is almost equivalent to a complete reproduction of the astronomical operation of the solar system.

Even more advanced than the heliocentric theory.

The sun is rotating and moving forward in the universe at a very high speed. At the same time, when it is moving forward, several planets in the solar system are also revolving around it.

Zhang Zai would never have imagined that only 30 years after his death, his disciples and disciples would carry forward his knowledge in one fell swoop.Through a nationwide debate on Confucian classics, he was abruptly elevated to the status of an astronomy sage.

This set of theories is so perfect that even after a thousand years, there is no way to overthrow this fact.

The other schools racked their brains, but they couldn't think of a more reasonable explanation than Guan Xue.

Two children's debate on the sun, this classic topic that should have no solution to Confucianism, has deduced the true meaning hundreds of years ahead of the West.

Therefore, there is no concept of heliocentric theory in the whole world, and people all over the world call it Hengqu Tianwen.

As a result, Guan Xue once again became a famous school in the world.

Not only Zhang Zai's Hengqu astronomy is known to the world, but also his Hengqu four sentences: "Build a heart for the world, establish a life for the people, inherit the unique knowledge for the past saints, and create peace for the eternal world" is also completely famous for a while.

All the schools in the Song Dynasty began to re-examine the ancient sages.

This time's battle of knowledge not only established Guan Xue's status as a leader in learning, but also made people all over the world realize the preciousness of learning from the past.

Without the set of viewpoints summarized by Mr. Hengqu, it would be absolutely impossible for Guan Xue to propose such a perfect theoretical system in just a few months, let alone establish his unshakable authority so easily.

The cultural renaissance belonging to the Song Dynasty was rapidly unfolding, and various colleges tirelessly studied the knowledge of various schools of thought.

Well, Confucianism is best at this.They euphemistically say: inclusive.

Anyway, the Chinese language is extensive and profound, and the same content, in another description, is their original work.

Can things between cultural people be called stealing?
This is called reference!

But isn't the so-called science just standing on the shoulders of predecessors and continuing to move forward?

Especially when others questioned them for stealing content from other schools, all Confucian students were confident, why did they steal it?

Although there are so many similarities, some key points are actually completely different, or even completely opposite!
Oh, it's not that they are original, it's that they have intercepted another school of ideas.

Although Confucianism has its natural mission of reformation, it is not realistic to ask them to develop and innovate and to propose a large number of scientific theories in such a short period of time.

At present, Confucianism is still in the stage of sorting out classics and summarizing knowledge.

Therefore, the most popular places in Tokyo are bookstores, libraries, and publishing houses.

Bookstores and libraries have existed in Central Plains since ancient times.

However, the Royal Consortium borrowed from the cannibal public library and set up the Royal Lantai Library.

It means that scholars of the Song Dynasty can directly borrow the royal collection of books in it.

The Royal Lantai Pavilion is located in the east of the Wu Temple, where the Taixue used to be. During the Jingkang Disaster, the Taixue was set on fire by the Taixue students, and they burned together with the Jin army.

The imperial court did not want this place full of literati festivals and book business spirit to become a business place full of philistines and selfish philistines, so a large-scale Lantai Pavilion was built here.

The Royal Lantai Pavilion is four floors high, surrounded by eight pavilions and corridors, covering an area of ​​more than five acres.

In order to fill this majestic and magnificent Royal Lantai Pavilion, the royal family can be said to be overwhelming, bringing in a collection of more than four million volumes.

The proud royal family has one million more volumes than the cannibal's library.

These 400 million books are not ordinary books brought in in batches just to make up the numbers. On the contrary, they contain a large number of cultural orphans that have never been seen by the people, the posthumous works of philosophers and hundreds of schools that have become unskilled, as well as the royal specials. Biography.

Although the Arabs were in the golden age, people all over the world are aware of the fact that on the Silk Road, it was the east that passed on more advanced culture to the west.

Therefore, the collection of books in the Royal Lantai Museum basically represents the highest level of civilization in this era.

(End of this chapter)