Chapter 637 Ideology System

In fact, some capable people have already figured out this solution.

There were not just one or two scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty who were interested in these things. Su You once discussed the escapement problem with Su Song. Su Song, who was well-informed, immediately told him that General Xu had many models of astronomical instruments in his home.

He seemed to have seen the thing before.

Seen it!

With a skeptical attitude, Su You went to visit General Xu at his home, and then found out that it was really true!

Xu Jiang passed two subjects later than Su You, but he was the top scholar, and he was only twenty-seven when he won the top prize, and he was also a super academic.

There is a huge difference between the imperial examination masters of the Song Dynasty and those of other dynasties. They are multi-talented in one specialty and have a wide range of hobbies.

Who knows why General Xu has a hobby of collecting mechanical models. In short, those things are much more complicated than Su You imagined. General Xu said that the model with the escapement, according to his research, should be an antique from the Han Dynasty, probably Zhang Heng.

What remains is called the inner armillary sphere.

After magnification and restoration, the trajectory of the stars on the celestial sphere can be simulated!

So Su You took advantage of the scientific and technological strength of the Ordnance Supervisor and asked Chen Zhaoming, Shi Fu, and two foreigners to work together. The inner armillary sphere was too complicated, so we only modified this mechanism and used spring steel rings, pendulums, gears, escapements, hands and scales.

Together with the disk, if you can make a simple timer, you'll be done.

This thing has now been put into use in scientific research, but it is just a simple auxiliary tool. No one has thought of using it as a clock.

Su You thought so, but before he could continue organizing research, he was sent to Shaanxi.

The scientific research tasks of the Ordnance Supervisor are very heavy, and they are mainly focused on overcoming various problems of artillery. Even the firecrackers are in a secondary position, let alone this thing.

So this irregular timer is still a timer. Su You dropped the button and hoped that some smart guy could associate it with a clock.

After the lecture, Gao Shilin signaled everyone to take a break, and then introduced several new talents to him.

Needless to say, Shen Kuo recommended this to Wang Anshi before he left. There were too few people in the new party who could engage in technology, and the only one who could engage in theoretical research was this one, so Wang Anshi asked him to promote the weapons supervisor as the main exporter.

product officer.

There is another one, Zhao Xu's 21st uncle, Zhao Zongyou, who scored perfect in arithmetic and was a scholar-type talent in the clan.

Su You exchanged several questions with Zhao Zongyou and found that the child had made great progress.

Zhao Zongyou is now the student leader of Songyang Academy. He also saw Su You's doubts and smiled humbly: "It was Huarong County Lord and Dr. Chen who taught me."

Dr. Chen Zhaoming is really a doctor, Dr. Taichang.

Su You now understood, start a small stove! The fine tradition of the Shu scholars!

Back then, I and Su Shi were facing the younger sister, and now the younger sister is facing Zhao Zongyou. They are really following the same line and going their own way. Let the scumbags cry to death on the roadside!

In addition, there are many school affairs and interviews with other top students.

Su You was very concerned about controlling the thoughts of the students at Songyang Academy. After all, scholars were the group of people who were most easily incited.

In addition to study and life, politics is also a topic that students are passionate about. After all, many of them will enter politics in the future.

Regarding the new law, most students disagree. The science and engineering school is more pragmatic, attaches great importance to experimental dialectics, and thinks much more deeply than students from other schools today.

For example, the square-field average tax does not increase the total amount, but also takes certain proportions of care for low-income households. Students generally believe that Suyou's Sheding tax land, with divided taxes, is obviously more detailed and reasonable.

Su You smiled bitterly in his heart, you only see the benefits. In a place like Shaanxi where wars, looting and annexation were not violent, I have made so many compromises with the upper third-class households. Politics is not what you see on the surface.

However, we cannot dampen everyone's enthusiasm. We should focus on encouragement.

As for the issue of land surveying, the students even took the initiative to compile a geometric atlas called "Zhang Tian Fashi". In the preface, they asked for a measurement and issued standards, and then explained the methods for calculating the area of ​​various figures.

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There was even a calculation of the surface area of ​​part of a cone. After reading it, Su You felt that the basis was still a bit high. He threw the book to the governors of various places, fearing that they would not understand it, so he asked Shen Kuo: "Cunzhong, this book is also for students."

Can you hand over all your hard work to Mr. Wang?"

Shen Kuo nodded: "Leave it to me."

From here, the topic turns to the exchanges between teachers in the college.

Songyang Academy is actually a basic academy that supplies high-level talents to the Ordnance Supervision. Geniuses recruited by the Ordnance Supervision from all over the country must first undergo systematic training at Songyang Academy before they can enter the work of the Ordnance Supervision.

However, these people have already advanced mathematics to a sophisticated level, and now they just use a more concise expression method.

Su You instructed the academy to summarize all the methodologies of these talents and translate them into higher mathematics textbooks by Xiaomei, Chen Zhaoming and others.

I didn’t know how strong the mathematical knowledge of the ancient Chinese was before. It turns out that they were already playing with things like calculus and number theory!

But there was another more important task than these. Zhang Zai Ercheng discussed it with Su You all the way.

How to combine the empirical science of science and engineering with Chinese speculative philosophy to form a set of Guan Shu ideological system.

Science must be put on the agenda.

This is a set of philosophical outlines with Chinese characteristics.

What is philosophy? In fact, it is not complicated. It is a speculative science based on rational argumentation. It solves the three major propositions of the origin of the world, the origin of thinking, and the origin of the relationship between them.

Its approach is rigorous and thorough.

For the Guan Shu School, the first thing is metaphysics, which is the process of extracting formulas step by step from phenomena through empirical evidence and using mathematics as a tool to find the truth in a universal sense. This is the strength of Shu School.

Use this as the foundation and methodology, and then gradually rise to the level of thinking.

The book lists many examples that are novel to people in the Song Dynasty today, such as the three mechanical laws of classical physics, the absoluteness of motion and the relativity of rest, the propagation and refraction of light, the formation of air pressure, the precise measurement of temperature, heat

The transfer of energy, the concept of energy, conservation and transformation of energy...

In terms of material composition, it lists the latest research results of Tianshi Mansion, the elements that have been determined so far, the theoretical system of chemistry, the identity of oxidation, combustion, explosion, the elemental composition of water, the existence of air...

In terms of astronomy and geography, the formation of wind and rain, evidence of geological changes, the origin of fossils, the formation of alluvial deltas at estuaries, the existence of ground curvature, how to discover the differences in longitude and latitude of different observation locations from ancient astronomical calculations, the existence of precession, and Polaris

Small changes in location...

There are many major research results among them, such as the existence of the Tropic of Cancer, which proves that the reason for the different climates between the north and the south is directly related to sunlight, and it also proves that the earth is in constant motion.

Another thing is that after the Tianshi Bureau introduced the concept of relative motion in the calculation and observation process of the sun and moon movement instruments, it was found that when eclipses occur, they mostly occur when the celestial ecliptic and the celestial equator intersect. At this time, the sun, moon and

The observation point is on a straight line...

There are also some achievements in mathematical research, the simplest ones are the application of equations, and the more advanced ones are the research on spherical geometry, analytic geometry, functions, number theory, probability problems, etc...

All of these are great achievements in understanding nature using science and engineering as ideological weapons, and they also prove conclusively that this system is of great help to the study of the origin of the world.

Then comes the second part, the issue of ways and means of thinking, which is dialectical logic.

Although there has never been a clear definition of this Chinese term, it has always been played familiarly, but it is mainly used in literature and is commonly used in argumentative essays.

But this is also a complex system. Su You suggested treating language as a phenomenon and then deducing a set of discussions about thinking forms, laws and methods.

It can be refined by absorbing and learning from the scholarship and definitions of ancient famous scholars, as well as the Buddhist theory of enlightenment, and the process from introduction to conclusion in countless classics in Chinese civilization.

The third is epistemology, which solves the problem of what knowledge is and how to obtain knowledge.

The most important point is that there is no absolute truth, truth is just a person's selective confirmation of knowledge.

The problem of Neo-Confucianism is to make most people agree with the systematic theory that Neo-Confucianism uses to solve how to choose and how to confirm.
Chapter completed!