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Chapter 435 Seven Luminaries Instrument
Finding a secluded corner where there were few people, Feng Xue took out a long table from her Hutian Bag and placed the box in her hand on the table.

Although the power of will in this world is not apparent, Feng Xue's heart candle can clearly feel that burning gaze.

He didn't say much, but pressed on the wooden box. Immediately afterward, the box bloomed like flower petals, revealing its contents: several spheres supported by gears and connecting rods.

At first glance, it seemed somewhat chaotic, and many people couldn't even understand what it was. But as Feng Xue reached out and pushed the one on the very edge, all the spheres began to rotate, some faster and some slower, driven by the gears.

"This thing is quite well-made, but isn't Feng Zhuli a member of the Yin-Yang School? Could it be that the new school he founded is the Crafts School? But this shouldn't be difficult for the Crafts School, right?"

The audience, who were expecting Feng Xue to deliver a great performance, waited for a long time but did not receive any explanation from her. Finally, some people couldn't help but mutter to themselves.

Compared to the common people who were still marveling at the exquisite craftsmanship of the artisans, these more knowledgeable young men from various families valued the core message that Feng Xue wanted to convey. However, the young man from the famous family who had spoken up suddenly realized that none of the others who had come with him were responding to him!
No, it wasn't just that they didn't respond; it was silence!
Yes, silence!

The peasants fell silent, the military strategists fell silent, the Mohists fell silent, the artisans fell silent, the historians fell silent. Finally, he turned his gaze to a Yin-Yang master, only to find that he too was silent. No, not just silent, but his fair hands were frantically calculating, his eyes seemed to be bulging out of their sockets. The frantically beating heart candle alone was enough to show how shocked he was!
To his relief, the physicians, legalists, and Confucians didn't seem to have noticed anything; they were just not as anxious as he was, so they hadn't had a chance to ask yet.

However, the Hundred Schools' Forum was an occasion for accepting questions and criticisms. The silence of the Hundred Schools' disciples was so glaring that ordinary people gradually began to notice that these disciples, who had been eager to act as free guides at every new booth, had all fallen silent.

Therefore, all their attention turned to the disciple of the famous master who had spoken.

It wasn't because he had spoken out of turn, but because the famous artist was known for his eloquence, especially for his ability to explain and find fault with other people's booths. Now that everyone was silent, the people naturally pointed at this disciple of the famous artist and said something to pique their own son's interest.

Being stared at by so many people, Sun Fang felt awkward, but running away like this would be too embarrassing. After thinking for a moment, he approached a Mo family disciple he was on good terms with and said in a more polite tone:
"Brother Tian, ​​what is the mystery of this object that has everyone silent?"

"Seven Luminaries." The Mohist disciple, addressed as Brother Tian, ​​was still calculating in his mind. Upon hearing the question, he didn't offer much of an answer, only uttering two words.

Although the disciples of famous masters are good at talking, they naturally have a lot of knowledge in order to debate with others, and they certainly have some knowledge of common knowledge such as the Seven Luminaries.

The so-called Seven Luminaries are the five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) plus the Sun and Moon, collectively known as the Seven Luminaries, but this is related to... oh dear!

Although he didn't understand it at first, when he heard about the Seven Luminaries and looked at the array consisting of seven large spheres and many small spheres, he suddenly had a guess.

but……

If that central sphere is the earth, then why is it crimson?

Moreover, this change in star path does not match the description in the Gan Shi Star Classic!

The scion of a famous family originally intended to say that, but he realized that if it were such a simple oversight, it wouldn't have silenced the professionals from the Agricultural School, Military School, Mohist School, Yin-Yang School, and other schools closely related to astrology and divination. Therefore, he must have been wrong!
Although famous scholars may be prone to arguing, their arguments must be grounded in reality. This disciple was a perfect example. He knew very well that what could silence even professionals couldn't be as simple as he thought. He calmed himself down and recalled the records of the five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) in the Gan Shi Xing Jing. Then, using an almost exhaustive approach, he treated each planet as if it were the Earth. Then, the moment he tried the fourth planet, an impact that seemed to explode in his brain caused him to involuntarily take a half-step back.

"No, this is impossible! How could this be?"

In fact, it wasn't just him; at this moment, everyone who had studied astrology was repeatedly thinking "impossible." But as they applied their knowledge of astrological movements to it, they found that there were no flaws whatsoever.

In this era, although there were already rudiments of theories such as the Hun Tian theory (heaven and earth are like an egg, with heaven as the eggshell and earth as the yolk) and the Xuan Ye theory (stars float in the Qi without any support), the most mainstream theory was still the Gai Tian theory, which proposed that heaven was round and earth was square.

According to Gai Tian, ​​the stars have a pattern of movement, but it is just a pattern, like soldiers on patrol. You only know that they move in this way, but you don't know why they move in this way. This creation clearly shows the way the seven luminaries operate.

Whether it's the alternation of day and night, the changing of stars, or even the phases of the moon, or even a solar eclipse, many phenomena have been given extremely reasonable explanations.

No, this is more than just an explanation!

Some historians who were well-versed in calendar systems even began to recall the classics in their minds, and looked up the celestial phenomena recorded in the historical books. They calculated that one rotation of the blue ball was one day, and one revolution around the red ball was one year, and their calculations were all accurate!
"My God! How is this possible! How can the Moon be so small? How can the Sun be so big! Is this Jupiter? Is this Venus? Is this Saturn? This is impossible! No, that's not right! It's possible! This is how it should be! But why is the Sun the center? Doesn't that mean the entire star chart is wrong?"

As the calculations and records reached a consensus, more and more disciples from the Hundred Schools began to show expressions of horror, followed by shouts that resembled madness.

It wasn't that they couldn't accept it, but rather that such a conjecture was simply too absurd. Even if everything the mechanism demonstrated was correct, they would still find it hard to believe that they actually lived on a sphere! And a sphere so much smaller than the sun!

"No, that's not right! This isn't right!"

Suddenly, the Yin-Yang Master, whose eyes were practically bulging out of their sockets, let out a unique shout, instantly drawing everyone's attention. This Yin-Yang Master disciple abruptly took two steps forward, rushing to Feng Xue's side, but then, as if afraid of damaging the instrument, forcibly stopped, his voice slightly hoarse as he said:

"This is not right! The lunar phase is incorrect! If the Earth and the Moon are so close, the observed lunar phase could not possibly be..."

Upon hearing the words of the Yin-Yang School disciple, Feng Xue simply smiled, then pointed her finger, and the Earth and Moon in the device suddenly floated up separately, and the distance between them increased until they were about 29 Blue Stars apart before finally stopping.

The Yin-Yang School disciple's voice abruptly stopped, but Feng Xue smiled and took out a sheet of Xuan paper from her Hutian Bag. On it were listed a series of dizzyingly large numbers:

"The seven celestial bodies are too far apart to be displayed in a small space. This celestial globe is only meant to illustrate the principles of planetary motion. If you wish to calculate detailed directions and distances, please refer to this table..."

(End of this chapter)