Theophrastus and Epicurus walked towards Alexander, and Alexander's mind was constantly spinning. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Little wise man, where did you come from?" Theophrastus asked first.

"I'm from the north, and I'm here today to learn something." Alexander said to himself: I can't say that I am from the 21st century.

"North?" Seeing Alexander nodding, Theophrastus continued: "Then what do you want to know? ”

"I would like to ask you a few questions, and if you know, I will go through the enrollment procedures right away and be your student. What do you think? ”

"Hehe,Okay,I see you're talented.,If you can be my student,I think that's the glory of me and the school!" Theophrastus laughed, but Epicurus always thought the boy was a little weird.

"Where do you think the center of the universe is?"

"It still needs to be asked, of course, we live on the planet." Strato preemptively said.

"Eudox once proposed that the position of the earth is exactly the center of the universe, and Aristotle believed that the universe is a finite sphere, divided into two layers, heaven and earth, and the earth is located in the center of the universe, so the sun and moon orbit the earth, and objects always fall to the ground." Theophrastus said.

"Oh, I see."

"Yes! Kids, do you understand? "Theophrastus.

"And where do you think the center of the world is?"

"Greece, of course, the westernmost part of the world is the Pillar of Hercules, the easternmost is India, and Greece is right in the middle of the world." Theophrastus proudly said that the Greeks at this time thought that Greece was the best nation, and therefore that Greece was in the middle of the world, which was very foolish, but even many philosophers thought so.

"Alas......" sighed, Alexander turned his head and looked ready to leave.

"Hey, how did you go?" Arimas asked strangely when he saw that Alexander was leaving.

"I don't think there's anything to learn, and I think whoever comes here to study will inevitably be misled." Alexander said locally, with a very sarcastic expression.

There was an angry look in the eyes of all three of them, and even Theophrastus, a man in his fifties, cocked his beard, obviously feeling insulted. Only Epicurus looked curious and puzzled, as if wondering what the child meant, and what his intentions were.

"What do you mean by that? You are insulting me, insulting our school, and even insulting the great sage Aristotle. I admired this kid very much just now, but when I heard him laugh at himself so much, the old man really couldn't swallow this breath.

"I just regret that even an erudite person like you could not know the answers to my questions, and that the answers were all wrong. Actually, I just asked a few simple questions, and I know the answers myself, but there are more in-depth questions that I haven't said yet? ”

"What?!" Everyone exclaimed, surprise and confusion.

"You said I was wrong, but I'd like to hear your answer." Theophrastus said with interest.

"The world we live in is called the Earth, it is a sphere, and the countless stars in the sky that we see at night are actually the same planets as our Earth, and there are countless such planets in the universe. The sun is a sphere more than 1.3 million times larger than us, and there are nearly 1 million stadia from us, and I remember that Aristotle mathematically calculated that the circumference of the earth is 400,000 stadia, in fact, the circumference of the earth is about 216216 stadia. Because the earth is spherical, there is no such thing as the East and the West, and the map drawn by Herodotus is actually quite wrong, at least the Indus and the Nile have no intersection. In fact, India is not the easternmost part of the common people's mouth at all, in the east of Bactria, that is, the northeast of India, over the Pamir Plateau as high as 22-38 Stardia, there is also a larger empire than the Macedonian Empire called the Zhou Dynasty, and their land area is much larger than that of Macedonia when it was at its strongest. ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise, and no one had ever thought of or heard of such a country in the world, and a country bigger than the Macedonian Empire, which was far beyond their understanding.

"In addition to Europa, Asia, and Africa, there is also an America the size of Asia Minor. In fact, Asia is far larger than you think, it is four times larger than Europa; Africa is not the size of Carthage, Mauritania, Numidia and Egypt, and there is a much larger area to the south that has not been developed, and its total area is three times larger than that of Europa. ”…,

"Phew—" There was another exclamation.

"You're just a kid, how do you know that? How can we know how accurate they are? Then Epicurus asked Alexander.

"I'm telling the truth, but the Phoenicians had already sailed around Africa as early as the 7th century B.C., and their route was roughly like this." As he spoke, Alexander drew his finger on the ground, because the Phoenicians sailed along the coast, so the outline of the map of Africa was drawn. Then two small circles were also drawn above the map, one for the island of Cyprus and the other for Crete. As soon as I explained it to them, everyone was in an uproar.

"If you want to find out whether what I said is accurate or not, I'm afraid there is only one way, I wonder if you want to know?" Little by little, Alexander led them into a trap of his own design.

"Of course, I study the natural sciences, and my task is to turn many of Aristotle's ideas into reality, to complete his unfinished research projects, and if the earth is so big, as you say, then we still have a long way to go." Theophrastus sighed, and then asked, "But I really can't imagine how a child of your age can know so much?" ”

"There is a diligent path in the book mountain, and there is no end to the hard work of learning the sea." Alexander deliberately sold out a trick to test their intelligence.

"Incisive, really incisive!" Epirus said appreciatively, and Theophrastus smiled happily, and Strato realized that only Arimas was stupidly unaware.

"The road is long, I will go up and down and seek. The road of learning is so long, the knowledge that people can understand in their lives is very limited, but as long as we can make new discoveries in a certain aspect, surpassing the ancients, even a little bit, that is progress, the civilization of human society is such a little bit of accumulation, one after another, inherited to the present, I think everyone must have a deep understanding of it. ”

"I didn't expect you to have such profound knowledge and consciousness at a young age, the old man only admired one person in his life, that is Aristotle, who is also my teacher and friend, I think my knowledge is also very rich, but when I see you today, I think I am just a frog at the bottom of the well, I am not even as good as a child. You said that you just asked a simple question, but what more profound question do you have to ask? ”

"Don't mention it, don't mention it!" With that, Alexander turned around and prepared to leave.

"Hey, don't go! By the way, I guess I'm going to ask you a question! ”

"Where, I have limited knowledge, I only know a little about fur, but I believe there are still a lot of them that are useful to you, such as about plants, but I'm not in a hurry, hehe!" Alexander knew that Theophrastus had been studying botany, so he deliberately reminded him.

"Oh! Is it? In fact, the old man has been studying this aspect of things, and it is great to meet the little brother today, the gods favor him! I have a lot of questions about my research on plants, so I can ask you for advice, and I hope to give me advice! Theophrastus really admired him, and that attitude was very respectful!

"That's a long story, where to start, I may be leaving tomorrow, I'm afraid I don't have time to talk to you!" Alexander regretfully explained to Theophrastus. Of course, this is deliberate, this is called wanting to get away with it, and the old man probably won't understand it.

"Ahh You said you're leaving, that, that—" The old man squeaked and didn't know what to say.

"Yes! To tell you the truth, I have a big task and I don't have much time to stay, and I came here because I admired my father's teacher Aristotle and you, so I came here, and I really met Epicurus's predecessors, what do I have to regret?! After saying that, I wanted to leave again.

"You say your father was a student of Aristotle, then you, you are—"

"Yes, I am the only legitimate heir to the Macedonian Empire, Alexander IV, the son of Alexander the Great and the Bactrian princess Roxana!" Alexander's words were so powerful that they really scared several people.

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1 Epicurus (Greek?) π Koupo?English Epicurus, 341~270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, atheist, and the founder of the Epicurean school. Born in Samos in 341 BC but to Athenian parents, he moved to Athens at the age of 18 and then traveled to Asia Minor, where he was influenced by the philosophy of Democritus, and in 307 BC began to establish a school in Athens, which had been active in Athens until his death. The main tenet of his doctrine is to achieve a state of undisturbed tranquility. Epicurus succeeded in developing the hedonism of Aristippus and combining it with Democritus' atomism.