"I know Zou Yan from the Yin Yang family. He has done some research on ghosts and gods. It is said that he can use the power of ghosts and gods to help him. I can invite him to Zhao Kingdom." Kong Chuan said.
Then, everyone also spoke out one after another, either saying that they could invite a certain hidden elder, or that there was some weird inheritance in their family.
I have to admit that the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were indeed a strange and brilliant era.
After thousands of years of development, the nobles have reached their limit. They have no idea where the way out is. They can only fumble around and mess around when they find a place. Some families can even work hard for hundreds of years.
There's nothing they can't do unless you think of it.
Things that were studied by people in the later dynasties were studied by people in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. Things that were not studied by people in the later dynasties were still studied by people in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.
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Not long ago, Gander and Shi Shen saw a lunar eclipse and suspected that the ground under their feet was a ball. Later, they thought that they were a sesame seed cake. How could the ground be a ball? If it were a ball, they would have fallen down long ago.
So I just wrote it down in the book and didn't pay attention to it anymore.
Historically, these two guys discovered this problem and did the same thing.
Later, when Yin Gao and Zhao Kuo mentioned this matter while chatting, Zhao Kuo was silent for a moment and said: "Is it possible... the earth under your feet is a ball."
That evening, the two old men found Zhao Kuo.
"Your Majesty said that the earth under your feet is a ball. I wonder if there is any basis for it?" Gander said directly without being polite.
Zhao Kuo was stunned for a moment and then said: "Standing on the seaside and looking at the ships approaching in the distance, you always see the mast first and then the hull. For ships offshore, the hull always disappears first, followed by the mast.
"
"I have never been to the seaside, nor have I ever seen a ship sailing to the sea." Shi Shen shook his head confidently.
"You two should have climbed the mountain. As the saying goes, the higher you climb, the farther you can see. If the ground is flat, no matter how high you climb, you should see the same distance." Zhao Kuo said.
Gan De was silent for a moment and said: "The earth near the mountain is not flat to begin with, but rises along with the mountain. It is normal to see farther when you climb higher, but it does not mean that the entire earth is spherical."
"And if the earth was spherical, we would have fallen down long ago." Shi Shen said.
To be honest, these two old men have long suspected that the earth is a ball, but they have never been able to figure out why they did not fall. If they can figure out this problem, they can solve other problems by themselves.
The fighting power of these two old men is still very strong. They not only observed the solar ear, corona, and sunspots. They even observed Europa and Ganymede, nearly two thousand years earlier than Galileo. They also measured the yellow-red angle, but there are
certain error.
What stands in front of them now is not technology, tools, or even wisdom, but common sense in life.
If the earth were a ball, I would definitely fall. This deep-rooted thing is the most difficult thing to change. It’s not just a matter of explaining that the earth is big and we are sucked by gravity.
Zhao Kuo realized that he had caused a big trouble. If he continued to explain this kind of thing, he would pull out a lot of things, all of which he could not prove.
"Based on things like solar eclipses, I think it is more likely that the earth is a ball. As for how to prove right or wrong, I think it is a matter for the two old gentlemen, not for me. What do you think?" Zhao Kuo said.
"As for why we didn't fall, have you ever thought about why raindrops fall from the sky? Why do people fall to the ground when they jump? Why do bows and arrows fall to the ground after being shot? If you can figure this out, maybe the previous one will be solved.
Already."
Gan De and Shi Shen left.
From then on, Zhao Guo lost two old men who smiled every day, and gained two old men who were busy running around with frowning eyebrows.
At this time, Zhao Guo was watching the rooftop.
"You two are still observing." Yin Gao walked up carrying a basket of red dates and said with a smile.
Gan De and Shi Shen didn't even turn around, and continued to look at the sky with the newly polished crystal telescope. This crystal was brought by Zhao Mu from the East China Sea. It was colorless and spotless, and was very suitable for making lenses. The two old men and the old farmer stared at each other.
It took a whole day to grab the eyeballs.
As for the Mohist family and the medical family, they are too embarrassed to compete with a group of old men.
Yin Gao wasn't angry either, he stood nearby and ate red dates with a smile.
"Aren't you curious?" Shi Shen asked when he saw that Yin Gao hadn't left for a long time.
"What are you curious about?" Yin Gao asked.
"Is the earth a ball?" Shi Shen said.
"If you two can solve this problem, I will naturally know about it. If you two can't solve it, there is no point in my curiosity. Anyway, I definitely can't solve it with my ability." Yin Gao said calmly.
Although he also has a lot of research in astronomy, he still has no one to compare with, and he definitely can't compare with these two old monsters in front of him.
"Then what are you doing here?" Gander said angrily.
"There have been some changes in the celestial phenomena recently, and I can't understand them, so I asked two brothers for advice." Yin Gao handed the basket over, "The big red dates from Jinyang were just shipped here today. They are very sweet. Try them."
"Haven't the celestial phenomena changed every day in the past two years? Is there anything strange about it?" Gan De took two big red dates and put them into his mouth, chewed them twice, and nodded, "It's indeed quite sweet."
"Just now, two stars that I had never seen before shone brightly in the sky at the same time. Then all the celestial phenomena turned into chaos, and no secrets could be seen anymore," Yin Gao said.
"Let me take a look at the stars I have never seen before." Gan De and Shi Shen were a little confused. They looked at the sky and pinched their fingers with their left hands. The star map behind them shone brightly, but there were no traces of the two stars in the sky. The sky was confused.
Chaos, as if covered by heavy fog, unable to see anything clearly.
"Are you sure you just saw stars you've never seen before?" Gander asked.
"I did see it." Yin Gao nodded.
"I can't see anything now." Gan De and Shi Shen looked at each other, shook their heads, pinched a few times with their left hands, but there was no response, then switched to their right hands, "Nothing counts."
"If nothing can be calculated, it means something big must happen." Shi Shen said.
"It doesn't matter, it's not a catastrophe anyway. If it is a catastrophe, the secret will definitely not be chaotic." Gander waved his hand indifferently and picked up the telescope, "I just saw it and you disrupted it. Now I can only re-
Observed.”
"Are the celestial phenomena seen with this thing the same as the celestial phenomena we just saw?" Yin Gao asked curiously.
"If you use divination, there will be no difference. If you don't use divination, you will only see ordinary stars." Gander said, "To put it bluntly, if you believe in this kind of thing, you will have it, if you don't believe it, there will be nothing. If you don't believe in celestial phenomena, how can you