Chapter 10 Across the Ages
"The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?"
Zu Shengcai, Cheng Yi, Sima Guang and others next to him looked at this line of words suspiciously. "Qin Gongzi, you seem to be writing a book?" Wang Anshi said in a loud voice.
"Once the argument for this ninth question is completed, the hidden 'Tao' behind the operation of the celestial system will come out. Qin Ning said crisply, "Such a crucial 'Dao' can not be explained clearly in two simple sentences." Three Tibets and twelve parts, Cao Xi died in one sentence, and the husband can explain it in three words, but do you understand?"
"It's me who is abrupt. Wang Anshi smiled loudly and stopped talking.
"Mechanics, which is closely related to us throughout the whole of nature, has been studied and explored by human beings, consciously or unconsciously, and at this stage, we put aside the forms and hidden properties of entities, and strive to subordinate natural phenomena to the laws of mathematics, so the purpose of this treatise is to develop mathematics until it is related to philosophy......"
Seeing Qin Chao writing the introduction on paper, everyone next to him couldn't wait.
"Qin Gongzi wants to use rigorous logic and mathematics to explain and demonstrate natural phenomena. Cheng Yi laughed, suddenly remembered something, and even shouted, "Jing Shuo, quickly let people prepare more four treasures and desks in the study." "Uh......" Zu Riheng was stunned for a moment, and Zu Shengcai said in a deep voice: "Go and arrange, Qin Gongzi will write a book, and find some more people to copy it." "Ah!" Zu Riheng glanced at the servant, "Go quickly." Soon there were several tables under the porch.
"Definition 1"
"The quantity of matter is a measure that originates from the combination of the density and size of the same substance. "The Qin Dynasty began the first part of the 'definition', and the Qin Dynasty did not read the book "Principles", but this time the book was written to follow the strict axiomatic model advocated by the ancient Greeks, that is, the Qin Dynasty, and derived propositions from definitions and laws. For specific problems, the results derived from the theory are compared with the observations.
And because the Qin Dynasty knew the achievements of the book "Principles", with the achievements of the book and all this research, what was the original book of "Principles", although the details of the text of the Qin Dynasty could not be exactly the same as the original books of later generations, but the general direction. What kind of system to build, the Qin Dynasty is clear.
Books are written strictly according to the scientific system, and at the same time do not get lost in pure formal reasoning, but only use mathematics as a tool. On the other hand, he did not indulge in pure philosophical speculation, all phenomena and propositions were linked to the real world, and the techniques and methods of writing books in the Qin Dynasty were already in line with Newton's original book.
In addition, the Qin Dynasty has written too many scientific masterpieces over the years, and writing this book is an example from the use of words, sentences, and dictionaries. Figures of speech and all other aspects have reached a level, so although this book cannot be higher in value than Newton's "Principia", it is stronger than the original book in terms of readability, orientalism.
I don't know when it gets dark in the courtyard plastered with happy words.
Under the lamp, Qin Chao was still writing rapidly, as if everything was already in his mind, as long as he wrote it, if someone else wrote it like this. It must be suspicious, but Qin Xian is arrogant. If not, it is not Qin Xianao.
In the courtyard, there are groups of warriors.
"For every force, there is always an equal reaction force against it, and the principle is simple. ”
"It looks simple, Qin Gongzi's defining laws, which one is not simple. But simplicity also has to be written, because simplicity is not simple, so I said that this reaction force reminds me of Mr. Yi Chuan's "All Things Have Quality"...... "Every page of manuscript paper written in the Qin Dynasty was copied by a large number of servants and then spread to the hands of various warriors. And then crazy discussions.
The original book "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" has nearly 300,000 words, and it has built a system involving all aspects, although the Qin Dynasty wrote it quickly, it is impossible to write all the contents of the book in a day or two.
One day, two days, three days......
Every day, in addition to normal eating and sleeping, the Qin Dynasty wrote this "Principle", and the warriors who came to attend the wedding, although they walked a lot, but none of them went to study knowledge, and every day they discussed the new content written by the Qin Dynasty.
Four days, five days, six days......
Gradually, there were fewer and fewer voices of discussion, but when it was updated, there were more and more people who were lying on the table with a pen and paper to write or find a place to think quietly.
Seven days, eight days, nine days......
Except for a small number of people who are still discussing, all scholars are more like Cheng Yi, Sima Guang, and Wang Anshi...... The more serious the face of such a big guy is.
On this day, the Qin Dynasty finished writing the last part and flew away with the original manuscript.
No one sent it, and no one said a word. In the Zhuang courtyard, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Su Shi, Zu Shengguang, and Cheng Yi got the final copying manuscript one by one, and the hands also flew away one by one.
In the martial arts world, since the Qin Dynasty wrote the book "Principle", the content of the book "Principle" has been published in the newspaper, and the voices of discussing this book are continuous, but the real bigwig-level figures, no one in the scholarly family has spoken out, even if the Qin Dynasty wrote the "Principle", it is still the case, until a month later, Han Zhongyan spoke in the newspaper.
"This is a time of shining stars, and over the years, "Theory of the Movement of the Celestial Bodies", "Origin of Species", "Dialogue", "Conversation", "Harmonious Celestial Bodies", ...... There have been countless epoch-making masterpieces that people admire. ”
"These books Qin Xianao and Duan Haifeng have given extremely high praise, and these praises are breathtaking. I was a little biased about those books in the early days, but with the development of science, such as "Dialogue", "Conversation", and especially "Harmonious Celestial Bodies", many of the truths have become clearer, and I have chosen to accept some of the truths in these books......"
"Now we will not discuss whether these books match the praise given by Qin Xianao and Duan Haifeng, but discuss the achievements of Qin Xianao's book "Principles" this time. ”
"In my eyes, this is a magnificent book that must be read with incense and bathing, and the five bodies are devoutly worshipped and read, and the achievements it has made are not exaggerate......d even if Qin Xianao and Duan Haifeng used all the praises of other books before."
As soon as Han Zhongyan spoke, he seemed to have knocked over a domino, and then Cheng Yi Bao spoke: "From the perspective of scientific research, "Principles" demonstrates a model of a scientific theoretical system, including theoretical architecture, research methods and attitudes, how to deal with the relationship between man and nature, and other aspects......
"This book actually constructs the most magnificent system in human history, especially the force that Qin Xianao talks about in the book, which Qin Gongzi calls 'gravitational force', which amazes me. This unified gravitational force explains all the movements and phenomena of everything from terrestrial objects to celestial bodies, whether philosophically, in reality, or geometrically, everything is so perfect that there is not the slightest flaw in it......"
Wang Anshi spoke in the newspaper: "Qin Gongzi is a masterpiece. It is a foundational work, which will definitely establish the role of physics as an example in the field of natural sciences in the future, and will inevitably make the development of every science with the ultimate goal of becoming a perfect system of deductive logic like physics......"
"The establishment of the law of universal gravitation and its application are incredibly beautiful, although it is for the purpose of calculating the laws of the movement of celestial bodies and planets, but in essence all movements in the world are unified by it......"
"I want to read Qin Gongzi's gravitational formula, Duan Gongzi will no longer say that the laws of planetary motion in the book "Harmonious Celestial Bodies" written by Qin Gongzi earlier are not perfect enough, and the formula of gravitation allows the three laws of planetary motion to be logically reasoned and demonstrated......"
Sima Guang spoke: "If science is also listed as a history. Then the book "Principia" will inevitably be the most classic work in mechanics first, but it connects everything in the world through mechanics and forms a complete system of cosmology and scientific theories......"
"It is unimaginable that everything in the world, all phenomena in the heavens, the moon around the earth, the earth around the sun, the tides. All these incomprehensible mysteries can be solved with a formula of gravitation......"
Shen Kuo spoke: "I can't think of anything to explain the greatness of this book, or it can only be said to be a miracle ......"
"The great thing about this book is that you can see it as epoch-making from any way you look at it. For example, in this book, Qin Gongzi's new invention in arithmetic, what he calls 'calculus', this 'calculus' pervades all parts of the book, and it is precisely because of the emergence of this 'calculus' that Qin Gongzi can successfully complete the derivation of gravitation. But is the point of 'calculus' really only about reasoning about the movement of celestial bodies?"
Zu Shengguang spoke: "This is a book that makes people crazy with jealousy, our Tianyu Gate would have had the opportunity to get such a glory, but one step away, it is often the distance between heaven and earth, everyone should know that our Tianyu Gate has come to that intersection." But in the end, he was defeated, and the reasons for this are very complicated, and the first thing I want to say is that he is ...... arithmetic."
"In order to solve the calculation problem of operation, Qin Gongzi invented a kind of 'calculus' here, if you study it carefully, you will find that this 'calculus' has infinite connotations, and four of the first six problems issued by our Tianyu Gate can actually be solved with this 'calculus'. ”
Zu Riheng said: "Calculus is the greatest achievement in arithmetic so far, there is no one, and there will be no such great achievement in the future, I am skeptical, the value of calculus, how to evaluate it is not too much......"
Zhao Tingzhi spoke: "This is a book that shocks the soul, it is nominally to answer the question of the ancestor Shengguang, but in essence it is far beyond the scope of the question of the ancestor Shengguang........."
Su Shi spoke: "If there is any book in this world that really knocks on the door of the truth of the Heavenly Dao, I can say that this book is. The influence of the book "Principia" has spread to all fields of natural science......"
Liu Qin spoke: "A book of soul baptism, which marks a key step in human understanding of nature......
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One big guy after another praised and touted, and the exaggeration of his words was so exaggerated that even Qin Ning, the originator, was dumbfounded when he read it. The Qin Dynasty didn't feel anything, after all, the original book "Principles" was the greatest work in the history of science, and there was no one.
Not to mention the influence of science, as far as the history of human civilization is concerned, it has achieved the British Industrial Revolution, induced the Enlightenment and the Great Revolution in France, and has direct and rich achievements in both social productivity and basic social system.
The achievements of the book "Principia" are unparalleled in later generations.
For this reason, even a great scientist such as Albert Einstein praised the book Principia, saying, 'It is not yet possible to replace Newton's unified concept of the universe with an equally all-encompassing unified concept, and without Newton's clear system, what we have achieved so far would not have been possible'......
Such a book, launched at such a moment, if it was still under attack, the Qin Dynasty would have to doubt whether the Chinese people were suitable for scientific research. (To be continued.) )