please make me king

After Zhang Shun seriously asked for advice, Zheng Ge Chengke, the inspector of the Qintian Supervisor, knew everything he could say, and his understanding of the traditional Chinese calendar immediately deepened.

After three days like this, Zhang Shun basically "drained" Ge Chengke's astronomical knowledge, and then recruited "Minke" Wei Wenkui to come.

At the beginning, Wei Wenkui was quite satisfactory, showing his solid foundation in the field of traditional astronomy.

However, shortly after contacting, this guy turned into a Molen man. Apart from being extremely disgusted with Western methods, he just talked about "Book of Changes gossip, Qimen Dunjia" and so on, which made Zhang Shun confused.

Enduring the headache, Zhang Shun listened for a while before finally realizing it.

It turns out that astronomy is his side job, but his main job is "exploring the avenue of heaven and earth".To put it more bluntly, it is an attempt to fit a mathematical model to calculate the laws of the universe and the changes in human disasters.

However, according to Zhang Shun's view, this is really a lofty ideal, but a cruel reality.

Not to mention that in this era, even in later generations with extremely advanced supercomputer technology, this is an impossible task.

Of course, you can't deny his level just because this guy is nagging.

Of course, a madman cannot survive.Although Wei Wenkui had some demonic obstacles, Zhang Shun saw that his calculation ability was even higher than that of Ge Chengke.

It's no wonder that he was able to carry the entire Eastern Bureau with his own strength. He fought back and forth with the talented Qin Tianjian and the Western Bureau, and even had a slight upper hand.

Zhang Shun saw that what he had learned was almost the same as that of Ge Chengke, so he planned to send him back after he finished his presentation today.

I didn't think about it, but at this moment I heard him say: "...Gairi is the king; five stars are the ministers, so they obey orders..."

"Wait, wait, you said 'the sun is the king; the five stars are the ministers'?" Zhang Shun was surprised when he heard the words, and asked quickly.

"Exactly!" Wei Wenkui quickly explained.

"The five stars only follow the zodiac in and out of seven or eight degrees, so it can be seen that the five stars obey the orders of the sun."

"And the five-star longitude, disease, delay, sequence, and future follow the distance of the sun, and the entry and exit of latitude also follow the distance of the sun!"

"Yellow way?" Hearing Wei Wenkui's words, Zhang Shun was shocked in his heart.

Do you know why?

It turns out that the ecliptic refers to the route the sun "walks" observed from the earth.

This Wei Wenkui said that the orbit of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and five stars deviates from the zodiac by only seven or eight degrees at most.

Moreover, the speed, rotation, and distance changes of these five stars in longitude are consistent with the sun.

Appearance, setting, and far and near changes in latitude are also consistent with the sun.

So these five stars are all revolving around the sun.

This is not the heliocentric theory, what is it!
This guy has something!Zhang Shun couldn't help asking, "What about the moon?"

"The obscurity of the moon always follows the distance of the sun. As for the repetition of yellow and red, the path in and out of the ecliptic is six degrees apart, and it is not disorderly. It is the change of latitude that also follows the north and south of the sun." Wei Wenkui said with a smile.

"But the sun is the king, and the moon is behind, and its slow movement is autocratic, not like the five stars obeying the orders of the sun."

When Zhang Shunyou heard Wei Wenkui's words, he finally confirmed that this is the so-called "heliocentric theory".

It turns out that although the moon follows the sun like gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and five celestial bodies, the sun is the king, the five stars are the ministers, and the moon is the queen. It does not completely revolve around the sun like the five stars.

"Is this the result of your research?" Zhang Shun couldn't help being surprised.

"Your Majesty is joking. Someone has said this before, and the grassroots are just picking up people's teeth!" Wei Wenkui laughed.

"Oh? I see that you hate Xifa deeply, how did you learn this kind of knowledge secretly?" Zhang Shun's heart darkened when he heard this, and he thought: So you have thick eyebrows and big eyes, and you are also a smart person!
"Xifa? Where did Your Majesty start with this statement?" Unexpectedly, Wei Wenkui was astonished when he heard the words.

"This theory comes from Zhou Shuxue's "Shendao Dabian Lizong Tongyi" in the Wanli period. What has it to do with Western law?"

During the Wanli period?Hearing Wei Wenkui's words, Zhang Shun immediately became suspicious of some "conclusive conclusions" in history.

However, Zhang Shun didn't know how many years had passed between this discovery and Copernicus' publication of "On the Movement of Celestial Spheres".

However, from Wei Wenkui's narration, Zhang Shun found that Zhou Shuxue's few short sentences had clearly proved the fact that the gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and five objects revolved around the sun.

As for the moon, although he did not explicitly mention that it is revolving around the earth.

However, according to traditional astronomical cognition, the fact that the moon revolves around the earth is also acquiesced.

No wonder, no wonder you are so accurate!
It turned out that Zhang Shun had seen in the previous files that Wei Wenkui had a large error in the calculation of the "eclipse extreme" in the calculation of the solar eclipse in the seventh year of Chongzhen, but in the "eclipse score" item, the calculation was almost exact, which was extremely amazing.

From this point of view, this person is not only proficient in arithmetic, but also has mastered the advanced "heliocentric theory".

Later, the two discussed some "calendar theory", and Wei Wenkui mentioned to Zhang Shun the later Xing Yunlu's opinion: "The sun is the ancestor of all phenomena, occupying the position of the father of the king, and holding the power of restraint. Xingyue borrows it Light, chensu proclaims its qi. Therefore, all numbers are derived from the sun, and the exchanges between the stars and the moon are all linked by the same energy of the sun."

The sentence "all the sun is connected by one gas" goes a step further, basically discovering the gravitational effect between the planets.

After Wei Wenkui's narration, Zhang Shun couldn't help but admire him, and at the same time realized that this "civil science" was not really a civil science, but had such close communication with astronomers at that time.

For example, the relationship between Zhou Shuxue and Xing Yunlu was extraordinary, and Xing Yunlu and Wei Wenkui were both teachers and friends. This way of inheritance is naturally extraordinary.

In Wei Wenkui's narration, China discovered the "heliocentric theory" and there is also a context to follow.

For example, in the Sui Dynasty, people discovered that "the five stars are the masters of the five virtues, and their travels either enter the zodiac or go out of the zodiac, just like the moon's travels have yin and yang."

In the Song Dynasty, "all the five latitudes follow the sun along the zodiac, but the moon has nine paths."

It can be seen that from people discovering that the five stars move in the zodiac, to discovering that the orbits of the moon and the five stars are different, to discovering that "the sun is the king, and the moon is the queen of the elephant", and finally to "the sun is the same as the pull", it is almost the same.

This made Zhang Shun unable to bear the admiration for traditional Chinese astronomy.

For this reason, Zhang Shun couldn't help but force Wei Wenkui to stay for a few days, until there was nothing new to talk about, and then reluctantly let him go.

After Wei Wenkui left, the missionary Tang Ruowang, accompanied by Wang Zheng, hurried over.

It turned out that Long Huamin, the president of the Jesuits in China at this time, was not very proficient in scientific knowledge such as astronomy and mathematics, so he had to send Tang Ruowang to replace him.

"The one who is the husband of the earth is also the center of the stars!" Tang Ruowang said after seeing the ceremony.

"The sun and the moon revolve around it, and the gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and five elements all revolve around the sun, and follow the sun around the earth."

"The other stars are all orbiting the earth, and they make one revolution every 24 hours..."

"Wait, wait!" Zhang Shun was stunned after hearing the beginning, and quickly interrupted Tang Ruowang's explanation.

"If I understand correctly, you mean that the sun and the moon orbit the earth, and the five stars of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and planet orbit the sun?"

"Your Majesty is right!" Tang Ruowang replied with a nod.

"Although this may sound shocking, it is true!"

Shocking ghost!
Zhang Shun originally thought that he was either talking about the geocentric theory or the heliocentric theory.

But he never expected that Tang Ruowang would come up with such a set of "false theories" for himself. What kind of hypothesis is this?
However, as soon as Tang Ruowang's "wrong theory" came out, Zhang Shun immediately realized a problem.

Was what Wei Wenkui was talking about earlier the "heliocentric theory" or the Tycho system?

Because Zhang Shun was preconceived, thinking that this was the heliocentric theory.

However, after hearing Tang Ruowang's words, he suddenly realized that if the earth was still placed at the center, wouldn't it be the astronomical model used by Far West?
If both sides are heliocentric or geocentric, it can still be said to be a coincidence.

However, as a coincidence, both sides produced the "Tycho System" almost at the same time, which makes people a little bit suspicious.

The right and wrong places are almost the same, so there is a high probability that one of them must be the result of research, while the other is the result of plagiarism.

And who is plagiarizing whom, it's a bit hard to say!
Of course, according to the "records" of Zhang Shun's previous life, there are three theories in astronomy in Western Europe in this era, one is the Ptolemy system, the other is the Copernican system, and the other is the Tycho system in between. system.

When Copernicus put forward the heliocentric theory, in addition to being opposed by the church, most astronomers in Europe at that time did not agree with it.

The main reason is that some calculations and observation results of astronomers at that time did not match the Copernican system.

At this time, the astronomer Tycho synthesized the "advantages and disadvantages" of the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems and proposed a compromise Tycho system.

Of course, don't look at this system as a bit weird, it was a big improvement compared to the traditional Ptolemy system at that time, and sometimes it was better than the Copernican system to explain the results of observations and calculations by astronomers at that time.

Therefore, as soon as this theory came out, it was immediately supported by many astronomers.

Not to mention the records of Zhang Shun's previous life, but in fact, in order to completely overwhelm the "Qin Tianjian" and "East Bureau", Tang Ruowang deliberately selected the Tycho system that he thought had the most advantages as the beginning.

"Okay, you continue!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but nodded after hearing Tang Ruowang's words, and didn't comment for a while.

Now he is about to evaluate the level of astronomy development of both parties, so he still focuses on listening.

Sure enough, after Tang Ruowang explained Tycho's system vividly and vividly, seeing that Zhang Shun was unmoved, he also said that he "didn't know what to do".So he pulled out the Ptolemaic system and criticized it.

The so-called Ptolemaic system is naturally not a simple geocentric theory.

Rather, it is an astronomical system in which a large number of stars and planetary trajectories are fitted around a point outside the earth and around the earth.

Originally Zhang Shun didn't care much about this, he was thinking about it and asked Wei Wenkui how the relationship between the earth and the sun was.

It's just that he was listening, and suddenly he was shocked, thinking of a person Ge Chengke mentioned a few days ago.

This person is Tang Shunzhi, a famous martial artist and military strategist. In fact, he is also a famous astronomer.

This person is famous for his research on "Arctic Sagittarius" and "Hijri" in "Shou Shi Li".

This "Hijri calendar" was originally introduced to China in the Yuan Dynasty. After the Yuan Dynasty died, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered someone to translate it into Chinese in order to supplement the insufficiency of the Chinese calendar.

However, because the legislative principle of this calendar is different from that of the traditional Chinese calendar, only a small number of algorithms have been absorbed, and its principles are not well understood.

Until Tang Shunzhi, who likes to pursue "calendar theory", discovered it when he was studying "Hijli".

So, he calculated in reverse, "Ji Qi Tu", and also drew a star map.

Originally, he was not very interested in this messy star map, but when he saw the Ptolomitic system map brought by Tang Ruowang, he couldn't help being taken aback.

It turns out that this picture is five or six points similar to the star map drawn by Tang Shunzhi.

Suddenly, an extremely bold guess appeared in his mind.

In fact, the Ptolemaic system was copied from the "Hijri calendar", and the Tycho system was copied from the model of Zhou Shuxue.

From this, we can infer that there must be a heavyweight in the Qintian Prison or the Eastern Bureau who advocates the so-called "Copernican System!"

In this way, the sources of the so-called three major systems in the West in my previous life are all clear!
The author originally didn't want to write any pseudo-historical theory, but originally planned to write a story in which Chinese and Western astronomy are well balanced, and let the protagonist lead China to the age of science.

Unfortunately, when the author continued to check the relevant information, he suddenly discovered a big problem.It is the emergence of a new astronomical model, which requires a gradual process.

In the Ming Dynasty, however, the emergence of the "Tycho System" was clear and clear, while the Western Tycho System and Copernican System seemed to pop out of a rock.

The author's findings coincided with Mei Wending's ideas in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, so in the end the author rewrote this chapter and the final conclusion