Chapter 1485 The Great Discovery of Astronomy - Zhou Wei's Third Law (5,000-word chapter)
"My emperor's sixth son has decided to study astronomy. But he only has a superficial understanding of astronomy and needs someone to teach him. After the Chinese New Year, I will let the emperor's sixth son study astronomy with you," Yun said.
Hearing Yun's words, Sichengtang was surprised. He didn't care much about the Sixth Emperor's willingness to study science; but even if His Highness the Sixth Emperor wanted to study science, there were many people who were more suitable to teach than him, so why would he choose him?
Sichengtang subconsciously wanted to ask, but his arm was lightly touched by Cao Zheng, and he heard Cao Zheng agree: "I would like to thank Your Majesty for your kindness, Master Si. Master Si was probably too happy, so for a while No response." As he spoke, he touched Sichengtang a few more times with his arm.
Different from Sichengtang's idea, Cao Zheng was overjoyed that Wen was willing to study science. This meant that Gezhijian had a higher status, was less likely to be shaken, and could get more money. Yang Zhu was just a flowing Gezhijian. Yes, he is the iron-clad deputy of Gezhijian. It can be said that Gezhijian and Gezhijian are both prosperous and disadvantaged. He is very welcome to any move that can make Gezhijian stronger. He is afraid that Sichengtang's hesitation will cause Wen to give up studying at Gezhijian. , so he quickly agreed on behalf of Sichengtang.
"I accept the order," Sichengtang said. Although he didn't quite understand what Cao Zheng meant, Cao Zheng had always supported his research, and he would not disobey Cao Zheng in public, so he agreed immediately.
"Okay." Yun said with a smile. Compared with Cao Zheng, Sichengtang is indeed more like a professional researcher, and Wen Ye is more suitable to study with him. After all, if you want to learn management or welcome people in official circles, it is better than Cao Zheng. There are plenty of more suitable teachers, so you don’t have to learn these things at the same time as studying scientific knowledge.
"Master Si," Yun called Sichengtang to his side again and gave instructions. "Since my emperor's sixth son is studying with you, you must do your best to teach him, and he will treat you as a teacher. Of course, he is only twelve years old this year. He will not be more than thirteen in the next year, so he still needs to study in the palace. He will only study with you for half a day every day. However, during this half day, you can treat him like an ordinary student. What's the point? You can leave all the errands to him, so you don’t have to worry..." Yun talked a lot. Wen is the second among his sons to devote himself to a certain career, but Wen is already seventeen years old. He is only twelve years old, so he has to care more.
"Yes, Your Majesty, I will do my best to teach His Royal Highness the Sixth Son of the Emperor." After he finished speaking, Sichengtang immediately bowed and agreed. He was not stupid, he had just been thinking that things that had been passed down in his family for several generations were actually gone. It was wrong. Being too indulging in it made him seem a little slow. When he came back to his senses, he immediately realized how much benefit he had in accepting the prince as his apprentice. At least, he would have as much funding as he needed in the future. Moreover, relying on this relationship, his son was very interested in studying. If he has no interest in science and can't eat this bowl of rice, he can still beg the Sixth Prince to arrange another errand.
"As long as you teach him seriously, I will definitely not treat you badly." Yun finally said.
After that, Yun gave Yang Zhu, Cao Zheng and others a few words to finalize Wen's study with Sichengtang, and planned to go back. Today was already the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and he wanted to go back early to celebrate the festival; not to mention that in the morning I got up too early, and the children were a little sleepy even now, and they all wanted to go back to rest.
However, since he came to Gezhijian once, Yun couldn't just take a look at the astronomical phenomena here in Sichengtang and then go back. In order to show that he attached great importance to Gezhijian's research on beans one by one, he also had to understand the scientific research progress of other people and talk about it. A word of encouragement, even after leaving Gezhi Prison, I forgot what I just heard and said.
So Yun left the other children behind, and only took his second son Wenyuan and Liu Ziwen to follow Yang Zhu, Cao Zheng and others around the houses, and also met most of the research officials of Gezhi Prison.
This gave them great satisfaction. Originally, today was already a holiday, and Yun wanted to come to Gezhi Prison just to take a look at the findings in Sichengtang. They were not ordered to come, but everyone was prepared to be welcomed by Yun in the event that they could. All the expectations were met, and they arrived at Gezhi Prison before dawn, even at nine o'clock. 'Finally, my trip was not in vain.' Everyone thought one after another.
"Deputy Supervisor Cao." Wen felt that this was boring and started talking to Cao Zheng.
"I'm here, what are your orders, Your Highness?" Cao Zheng said in a low voice.
"Just now, I heard you say a word, 'temperature'. According to the words of Vice Superintendent Cao at the time, this word should refer to heat, heat, boiling, etc., am I right?" Wen said. Just now, I talked about the sun. When discussing what exactly sunspots are, Cao Zheng mentioned the word temperature. Wen didn't think about it carefully at the time. Looking back now, he asked what the word meant.
"Your Highness, temperature is not a word that just means hot, but a word that means both hot and cold. A low temperature means cold, and a high temperature means hot. Moreover, I not only divided the temperature into high and low, but even divided the temperature into high and low. It can be divided like length." Cao Zhengdao.
"How can inflammation, heat, warmth, cold, and cold be divided into sections?" Wen asked in surprise.
"Your Highness, after Master Si invented the word temperature, he also invented the thermometer. The thermometer is a glass tube with an open end at one end and a walnut-sized glass bubble at the other end. Before measuring the temperature, heat the glass bubble first, and then heat the glass The tube is inserted into the water. At this time, the water surface in the glass tube can be seen moving up and down. If the temperature is high, the water surface is higher; if the temperature is low, the water surface is lower. Then mark the scale on the glass tube to determine the temperature, and even the temperature. How about. Let the temperature at which water freezes be zero degrees, and the temperature at which a person does not have a fever be 100 degrees." Cao Zheng said.
"What about sub-zero temperatures?"
"This, the temperature is below zero and cannot be measured with a thermometer, so," Cao Zheng said dryly.
"I thought we could use negative numbers." Looking at Cao Zheng's expression, Wen knew that he probably didn't expect it, so he simply put forward his own idea.
"Negative numbers?" Cao Zheng thought for a while and then remembered that this was a concept mentioned in the "Equations" chapter of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic". It was also a concept expanded by Zhu Shijie, a famous mathematician from the Yuan Dynasty, in "Arithmetic Enlightenment". For a moment, he remembered the meaning of negative numbers, and said with joy on his face: "Your Highness's words are very appropriate. When the temperature is below zero, negative numbers are used. Your Highness is really very smart, and I will never be able to match it."
This is not a flattery, it is a sincere compliment. Wen has just learned the concept of temperature, and he can think of negative numbers and name sub-zero temperatures, which shows that he is very smart and has good mathematical skills.
"Deputy Superintendent Cao is overly praised." Wen said, but he still looked proud. He didn't get any prompting from anyone, he came up with it on his own, and felt that he deserved this praise.
Cao Zheng praised him a few more words, which made Wen even more happy, and it took a while before he calmed down. At this time, Yun called Cao Zheng over if he had something to say to him. Cao Zheng confessed his crime to Wen and walked to Yun's side.
Seeing Cao Zheng being called away by his father, Wen Ye felt a little thirsty and didn't want to talk anymore. He was about to take a look at the scenery in Gezhi Prison when he suddenly caught a glimpse of Zhou Wei who stood out because Cao Zheng's position was vacant. Originally, this It's nothing, but Zhou Wei's expression is really strange. His eyes seem to be staring straight ahead, but if you take a closer look, you can find that he is clearly thinking about something very seriously in his mind and is not paying attention at all. There was something. And his lips were moving slightly, as if he was mumbling something.
"Master Zhou," Wen said.
"What do you want your Highness to do?" Zhou Wei didn't hear it at first. He only reacted after being reminded by others and hurriedly saluted.
"Master Zhou, what are you thinking about? I see you are mumbling something."
"This is a matter of astronomical research."
"What is it?"
"This," Zhou Wei hesitated and said, "is some research on the laws of stars orbiting the sun."
"How do stars orbit the sun?"
"Your Highness, everyone who studies astronomy believes that there must be the same laws in the movement of stars, so I have been studying the laws, but no results have been found." Zhou Wei replied.
"Since there has been no result for so long, Master Zhou doesn't have to rush." Wen Dao.
Hearing this, Zhou Wei did not answer. He originally thought so too. It can be seen that Sichengtang was in the limelight today and would definitely reward him in public after meeting all the research officials of Gezhi Prison later. He felt a little unbalanced in his heart.
, not to mention that he also accepted Wen as his apprentice, so he could get more resources in the future and be more likely to get research results. So he wanted to get the research results as soon as possible. But it was not easy to tell the prince, Zhou Wei
I can only chat and gossip.
"Master Zhou, don't worry. Even if I become Master Si's student, I won't be too biased towards Master Si." Wen probably thought about it for a while. Although he didn't completely guess it, he guessed that he was probably worried that he would become a student.
A student from Sichengtang later affected the distribution of funds and hurriedly said: "I will be impartial and will not favor Master Si." But after saying this, he felt that Zhou Wei would not believe it, so he thought for a while and said: "Even if
For the time being, I am biased towards thinking about the master, but I will make up for it later and return the money that should have been shared by Master Zhou and the Qing family." He was also afraid that Zhou Wei would not understand, so he deliberately found a mathematical concept to make an analogy.
: 'It's like a point moving along an elliptical trajectory. Even if it is far away from the focus for a while, it will be closer to the focus again after a while."
Zhou Wei understood the metaphor, and a look of gratitude appeared on his face. Just as he was about to say thank you, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. He froze on the spot, and then said: "I understand, I understand."
"What did Master Zhou understand?" Wen asked, but Zhou Wei did not answer. He saluted him and said, "Your Highness, please forgive me for my sins." He turned around and left without asking Yun for instructions.
"What's going on?" Wen Yi asked a question on his forehead. But no one could answer it, except Zhou Wei himself.
The matter was quickly reported to Yun. Yun just smiled, said nothing, and continued to express condolences to the research officer of Gezhijian. If Zhou Wei could give a reasonable explanation today, he would not pursue it; but if Zhou Wei today
If he can't give a reasonable explanation, Yun will be severely punished for his disrespectful behavior.
After a while, Yun finished condolences to all the research officials, and briefly learned about their scientific research direction and progress. He was about to gather everyone together to comfort them, and announced the reward to Sichengtang in public, but at this time
Zhou Wei suddenly ran over again, ran to Yang Zhu's side, saluted Yun and said, "Your Majesty, I have made a new discovery and I will report it to Your Majesty."
"Say it, I'll listen." Yun said.
"Your Majesty, I was reminded by His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince just now and suddenly discovered two laws of the movement of stars around the sun."
"Two laws of motion of stars around the sun?"
"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhou Wei said: "I discovered that the stars revolve around the sun not in a circle, but in an ellipse, and the sun is located at one of the two focuses of this ellipse. This is my first Discover."
"Chen's second discovery is that when the stars orbit the sun, the area swept by the line connecting the stars and the sun is equal every minute."
"I have a third conjecture, but I can only leave it as a conjecture because I haven't had time to verify it. That is, when the stars revolve around the sun, all the stars that revolve around the sun will follow the semi-major axis, semi-major axis, and semi-major axis of their orbits. The product is compared to the product of the two operating times and the result is a fixed number.”
After Zhou Wei said these three sentences, before Yun could speak, he heard Sichengtang say: "How is this possible? How can the stars orbit the sun in an elliptical trajectory? It must be a circular trajectory."
"Your Majesty, I agree with Master Si. The stars must follow a circular trajectory around the sun, but the sun is not in the center of the circle." Cao Zheng also said. Not only the two of them, but also other people present were talking about it and did not support Zhou. Great new discovery.
After a while, everyone stopped making noise. Among them, only two people did not speak. One was Zhou Wei. He just stood quietly and looked at Yun's feet. His expression was very calm, as if what others were retorting was not true. His new discovery; and the other person was Yun. Keyun's expression was different from Zhou Wei's.
"Zhou Qing, how did you discover the pattern of the two stars orbiting the sun and come up with the third conjecture?" Yun asked with a slightly excited look on his face.
"Your Majesty, the reason is this." Zhou Wei said: "Since Master Si observed the Milky Way, the moon, and discovered sunspots, which proved the heliocentric theory, I have been studying the laws of stars orbiting the sun, but no matter what No matter how many auxiliary wheels are placed on the stars and the sun, their actual trajectories deviate slightly from the calculated trajectories, and this is the result of observations by dozens of people in Gezhijian, so there should be no mistakes. Therefore, I gradually abandoned the idea of circular trajectories. "
"But I still have no idea what kind of trajectory it should be. Just when I was pondering this matter, I heard Huang Liuzi say: 'It's like a point moving along an elliptical trajectory. Even if it is far away from the focus for a while, it won't be long." The distance from the focus became closer, and suddenly I realized that the elliptical trajectory seemed to be very similar to the trajectory of the stars around the sun. I hurried back to check the previous observation records for verification, and I found that there was no deviation."
"Then I was about to return to report to His Majesty. I took another look at the star chart and suddenly found that the stars were moving sometimes faster and sometimes slower, which was unpredictable. At this time, a second regular idea suddenly emerged in my mind. I picked up my pen and did some calculations. I found that there was indeed no deviation.”
"I used to delve into the laws of stars orbiting the sun, and I did a lot of research. Among them, I once imagined the law of the third conjecture. Just now I suddenly remembered that I calculated the numbers of two stars with a pen and paper and got the same result. But I I didn't have time to calculate the number of the third star, so I rushed to report to His Majesty."
Everyone was speechless after hearing Zhou Wei say that the calculations had been carried out and that they were consistent with the observation records. Although they were still unwilling to accept that the stars orbited the sun in an elliptical trajectory, they all had the qualities of scientists and knew that It is useless to talk from the air to the air here. It is better to go back and conduct strict observations and calculations, and then calculate the results that are different from Zhou Wei's and then slap them in the face with the facts. Of course, it is also possible that their calculations have the same results as Zhou Wei, then They are about to accept these three laws proposed by Zhou Wei.
However, there was a person at the scene who knew that the two rules and one conjecture proposed by Zhou Wei were definitely correct without calculation or observation. This person was of course Yun. He was looking at Zhou Wei at this moment, as if he was looking at the corridor when he was at school in his previous life. Looking at the portraits of scientists who will always be remembered by future generations, I even feel a sense of admiration in my heart.
Fortunately, he has been the emperor for so many years and is very good at cultivating qi. He did not act out of character on the spot. He just smiled lightly and said: "I don't understand what Zhou Qing just said about the laws of stars revolving around the sun." I understand, but since Zhou Qing has done the calculations and the results are the same as the observation results, Zhou Qing will not deliberately deceive me. Naturally, it is also appropriate for the other lovers to verify it, but I think there should be no mistakes. "
"In this case, I will name these two laws and a conjecture in advance. If it is verified that Zhou Qing's conjecture is correct, I will name it Zhou Wei's Three Laws."
"Your Majesty," Cao Zheng was taken aback and was about to refute; it has not been verified yet, how can it be regarded as true? Moreover, naming someone after a person is too shocking. Ke Yun ignored him and turned around to face the people present. After the possessive prison officials said a few words of encouragement to them, they announced the rewards to Sichengtang and Zhou Wei on the spot.
"Ge Zhi's supervisor, Book Sichengtang, gained a lot from studying the sun, moon and stars. He was awarded the title of Grand Duke. He was first awarded the title of Doctor Zhongshun, promoted to Doctor Zhongxian, and further awarded the title of Doctor Zhongyi."
"Zhou Wei, the director of the prison, gained a lot from studying the sun, moon and stars. He was awarded the title of Grand Duke. He was initially awarded the title of Yazhong Doctor, promoted to the Middle Doctor, and finally the Dazhong Doctor."
"My dear friends, as long as you have something to gain, I will definitely not be stingy with the reward!"
