Chapter 637 Ideology

In fact, there are already capable people who have come up with this plan.

Da Song is interested in these things is not one or two, Su You once talked to Su Song about the problem of the escapement, and the well-informed Su Song immediately told him that Xu Jiang had a lot of models of astronomical instruments at home, and he seemed to have seen this thing.

I've seen it!

Su You held a suspicious attitude, ran to visit Xu Jiang's house, and then found that - really special!

Xu Jiang is two subjects later than Su You, but he is the champion, and he was only twenty-seven years old when he won the champion, and he is also a super scholar.

There is a huge difference between the imperial examination scholars of the Song Dynasty and other dynasties, that is, they have a wide range of hobbies.

The ghost knows why Xu Jiang has a habit of collecting mechanical models, in short, that thing is far more complicated than Su You imagined, Xu Jiang said that the model with an escapement, according to his research, should be an antique from the Han Dynasty, probably left by Zhang Heng, called the internal armillary sphere.

After magnification and restoration, you can simulate the trajectory of the stars on the celestial sphere!

So Su You used the scientific and technological strength of the Ordnance Supervisor to let Chen Zhaoming, Shi Fu, and the two foreigners together, the internal armillary sphere was too complicated, we only modified this mechanism, and with the spring steel ring, pendulum, gear, escapement, pointer and dial together, we could make a simple timer and finish the job.

This thing has been put into use in scientific research now, but it is just a simple auxiliary tool, and no one has thought of clocks and watches.

Su You thought about it, but before he could continue to organize the attack, he was thrown to Shaanxi.

The scientific research tasks of the ordnance supervisor are very heavy, mainly in overcoming various problems of artillery, and even the firearm is in a secondary position, not to mention this thing.

So this non-standard timer is still a timer, Su You dropped the button, hoping that some smart guy would be able to associate it with the clock.

After the lecture, Gao Shilin signaled everyone to rest, and then introduced him to a few new talents.

Needless to say, Shen Kuo recommended this to Wang Anshi before leaving, there are too few people in the new party who can engage in technology, and those who can engage in theoretical research are just this one, so Wang Anshi asked him to raise the ordnance supervisor as an official who mainly focuses on export-oriented products.

There is another one, Zhao Zongyou, Zhao Zongyou's twenty-first uncle, the one with a perfect score in the Ming Arithmetic Department, a scholar-type talent in the clan.

Su You and Zhao Zongyou exchanged a few questions, and found that this baby has made considerable progress.

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

Chen Zhaoming is really a doctor, Dr. Taichang.

Su You understands now, open a small stove! The fine tradition of Shu scholars!

Back then, he and Su Shi were to the little sister, and now the little sister is to Zhao Zongyou, and it is really in the same vein - go your own way, let the scumbags cry to death on the side of the road!

In addition, there is a lot of school affairs, as well as interviews with the rest of the top students.

Su You is still very concerned about the control of the thoughts of the students of Songyang Academy, after all, scholars are the most easily instigated group of people.

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

As for the new law, most of the students disagreed, and the science and engineering school was more pragmatic, attached importance to experimental dialectic, and thought much more deeply than the students of other schools today.

For example, the average tax on Fangtian, while not increasing the total amount, gives a certain amount of care to low-income households, etc., and the students generally believe that the tax of Suyou's Sheding tax land is obviously more detailed and reasonable.

Su You smiled bitterly in his heart, you only see the benefits, the kind of place in Shaanxi that is not fierce in the war and looting, I have made so many compromises with the upper and third-class households, and politics is not these things you see on the surface.

However, it can't dampen everyone's enthusiasm, and it is still mainly encouragement.

As for the problem of land surveying, the students even took the initiative to organize a geometric atlas called "Zhangtian French Style", in which a degree was required in the preface, a standard was issued, and then the method of calculating the area of various figures was explained.

There is even a calculation of the surface area of the cone part in it, Su You felt that the foundation was still a little too high, and this book was thrown to the local governments, afraid that they would not be able to understand it, so he asked Shen Kuo: "In storage, this book is also the hard work of the students, can it be handed over to Wang Xianggong?" ”

Shen Kuo nodded: "Leave it to me." ”

From here, the topic turned to the exchange between the faculty members of the college.

Songyang Academy, in fact, is a basic college for the Ordnance Superintendent to send senior talents, and the geniuses recruited by the Ordnance Superintendent from all over the country must first undergo systematic training in the Songyang Academy before they can enter the Ordnance Superintendent work.

However, these people have already advanced mathematics to a more advanced level, and now they are just changing to a more concise way of expressing it.

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

I didn't know how strong the ancient Chinese mathematics knowledge was, but it turned out that they were already playing calculus, number theory and other things!

But there is another task that is more important than these, Zhang Zai Ercheng, and Su You discussed 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 on the agenda.

This is a set of philosophical outlines with Chinese characteristics.

What is Philosophy? In fact, it is not complicated, it is the science of speculation based on rational argumentation, the three propositions of the origin of the world, the origin of thinking, and the origin of the relationship between them.

The approach is rigorous and thorough.

For the Guan Shu school, the first thing is metaphysics, that 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 the universal sense, which is the strength of Shu school.

With this as the foundation and methodology, it gradually rises to the level of thinking.

The book lists many examples that are novel to the Song people today, such as the three 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, the transfer of heat, the concept of energy, the conservation and transformation of energy......

In terms of the composition of matter, he listed the latest research results of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, the elements determined so far, the theoretical system of chemistry, the identity of oxidation, combustion, and explosion, the elemental composition of water, and the existence of air......

In terms of astronomy and geography, the formation of wind and rain, the evidence of geological changes, the origin of fossils, the formation of alluvial deltas in estuaries, the existence of ground curvature, how to find the difference in latitude and longitude of different observation sites from the astronomical calculations of the ancients, the existence of precession, and the small change in the position of the North Star......

There are many important research results, such as the existence of the Tropic of Capricorn, which proves that the reason for the difference in climate between the north and the south is directly related to the sunlight, and also proves that the earth is constantly in motion.

In addition, after introducing the concept of relative motion in the calculation and observation of the solar and lunar operation instruments of the Heavenly Master Bureau, it was found that when the solar and lunar eclipses occur, most of them occur when the celestial ecliptic and the celestial equator intersect, and at this time, the sun, the moon and the observation point are in a straight line......

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

All these are the great achievements made by using science and engineering as an ideological weapon to understand nature, and they have also proved with no doubt that this system is of great help to the study of the origin of the world.

Then there is the second part, the question of the way and method of thinking, which is dialectical logic.

Although this Chinese has not been clearly defined, he has actually been familiar with it, but it is mainly used in literature, and it is common in argumentative essays.

But it's also a complex system, and Su suggests taking language as a phenomenon and then deriving a set of discourses about thought forms, laws, and methods.

It can absorb and draw on the scholarship and definitions of ancient masters, as well as the study of Buddhism and the process from introduction to conclusion in countless classics in the Chinese civilization canon, and then refine.

The third is epistemology, which addresses the question of what knowledge is and how to obtain it.

The most important point is that there is no absolute truth, and truth is only a selective confirmation of knowledge by individuals.

The problem with science is to get the majority of people to agree with the systematic theories that science uses to solve how to choose and how to confirm.

In fact, it is very simple, and it is also the view that science has always advocated - the truth can be proven.