Astronomy and nautical surveying received not only a grant of 10,000 silver coins from the Ministry of Engineering, but also a grant of 3,000 silver coins from Nanyang College to map the longitude of land beyond the deck, and to verify the mathematical calculations of the gravitational system with geometric surveying.

However, after paying 3,000 silver coins for research, Nanyang College wanted not only to verify the mathematical calculations and longitude maps of the gravitational system, but also to propose another research direction later.

Starting with Jupiter's moons to measure longitude, astronomy and mathematics also need to combine to measure the speed of light, or whether the speed of light is finite or infinite.

If Jupiter's moons had followed a predetermined orbit, they would have had a moon-like astronomical month, which meant that it was an astronomical clock that was more accurate than the most accurate clocks available today.

So this astronomical clock is mathematically accurate, but is it accurate in observational concepts?

It is known that Jupiter's orbital period is 12 years, while the Earth's orbital period is 1 year, and because of the elliptical orbit rather than a pure circumferential orbit, the signals sent by the astronomical clocks of Jupiter's moons in 12 years will inevitably lead to conceptual inaccuracies due to distance.

It's easy to prove that the speed of light is finite. It only takes one observation period of three to five years to determine that the "lunar eclipse" period between Jupiter's moons and Jupiter is not fixed...... In fact, it is fixed, and the reason why it is not fixed in the eyes of the observer is because of the distance is too far, and because of the asynchronous distance difference between Jupiter and the Earth's orbit, the information that travels at the speed of light is delayed.

It's not too difficult to measure the speed of light. Taking advantage of the transit of Venus, the distance between the Sun and the Earth can be estimated arithmetic by using parallax and the cubic ratio of the radius of the planet's motion to the square of the period.

With this distance, we can calculate the radius of Jupiter's orbit by using the laws of planetary motion, using the square ratio of Jupiter's cycle and the Earth's year, and then using the analytic triangle to calculate the distance between Jupiter and the time difference between Jupiter's "lunar eclipse", we can roughly push out the speed of light.

What is needed is a system.

First of all, it is necessary to determine that the propagation speed of light is limited through observation, and then calculate the distance between the earth and the moon according to the triangulation method to ensure that it is roughly consistent with the mathematical derivation algorithm of the gravitational system, so as to completely establish the correctness of the gravitational system.

When the correctness of the gravitational system is verified and determined, the laws of planetary motion of the gravitational system are used to calculate the distance of the Earth and the Sun by relying on the opportunity of the transit of Venus, and the distance of Jupiter is reversed. Finally, the speed of light can be calculated using a junior triangle and elementary division.

Of course, a copy of Nature and Science cannot only contain astronomy and physics, and nature has other contents that can be reduced to nature and science.

However, a glimpse of the whole leopard, physics, astronomy and mathematics is a kind of research method in the basic sciences of Nanyang College—granting funds, purposefully completing measurements within the system, racking people's brains to think about any possible research directions within the system, continuing to apply, and continuing to allocate funds after approval, and proceeding to the next step of research......

Other disciplines have a similar model, which is to put forward a system foundation, verify the system foundation, and then use this system foundation to launch new conclusions.

It is to squeeze out the last bit of juice in the system, improve the system itself, and use the perfect system to explain the basic world.

The various disciplines promote each other, ensuring that the progress of any discipline can lead to the development of the rest of the related disciplines.

Chen Jian is sure that after the bombshell of this inaugural issue is dropped, ten years later, surveying, astronomy, calendars, mechanics, mathematical conic curves, etc., will make great progress and open up a new era.

Conic curves, microelements, derivatives, and extremums, although they may not seem to be used much in this set of projects for the time being, once the research is deepened, these things will naturally be developed and philosophically explained, and become a mathematical tool that must appear and conform to the times.

Once the speed of light is measured, the discussion of what light is. Wave-particle duality, which sounds mysterious, did not appear as late as imagined, and began to appear almost with the advent of mechanics: without experiments such as interference diffraction, the simplest and most common reflections and refractions would lead to a protracted debate that particle properties can explain reflection, but not at the current level of mathematics; Fluctuations can explain refraction, and without amazing mathematical talent and drawing skills, you have to fall into the pit of limits and derivatives, forcing those who are involved in this debate to ponder the mathematics of calculus.

When the time comes, as long as the dying Chen Jian instigates in the middle and induces the two sides of the particle theory and the fluctuation theory to fight, it is easy to have a paradoxical situation - a one-sided view of both sides is reasonable, so the final decision on which side has a higher level of mathematics, who has a clearer definition of derivatives, limits, and calculus, and the era of telling stories with their necks pulled has passed......

The content in "New Discoveries in Mathematics" is not quite the same as "Nature and Science", it is not so interesting, but it is integrated with the former and becomes a system.

The two remaining publications, World Anecdotes and Naturalism and Politics and Economic Review, are very different in style from the first two, but they are also self-contained.

Unlike the first two publications, which were as boring as they could be, in addition to the normal content, Chen Jian also adopted another "fantasy serialization" model that was popular in the market at this time, which was conducive to dissemination, and had the ability to orient public opinion and attract readers.

The first article of the first issue of "World Facts and Naturalism" was an adventure called "Around the Earth".

The protagonists of the story are a young man who is proficient in naturalism, a young probationary member of the Mexican Party, and six people who have been educated in natural knowledge, three men and three women.

It is a love story that begins when six people decide to cross the desert to reach the Great Wilderness City with hydrogen balloons and monsoons, but they are blown to the island due to the sudden change of wind direction.

The story of the six people who used their naturalist knowledge to survive on the island from scratch, and then used all kinds of seemingly reliable but unscrupulous scientific knowledge to leave the island and continue to sail around the world, and finally returned to the Great Wilderness City after a circle, promoting a concept of "scientific omnipotence" and the idea of an era dominated by naturalists and engineers.

It is a general blend of stories from "Eighty Days Around the World", "The Mysterious Island", "Captain Grant's Children" and "Robinson Crusoe", introducing the sights, species, cultures, races, history, and religions along the way.

But there is also a big difference, unlike the colonial idea of discovery that is, possession, advocated in "Robinson Crusoe", these six people generally live on a desert island with an "utopian" concept of equality, and between the lines are mixed with concepts such as "natural resources should be owned by the people, labor creates everything, and the essence of gold is not the same as human labor, and the self-realization of the value of life is human nature with different manifestations in a specific society", creating a kind of "equality, freedom, labor and diligence" that everyone yearns for The dream trip.

All kinds of customs, strange animals and plants, religion and culture along the way are the main parts that attract readers, and they are also the most suitable parts for those who follow Chen Jian to return from the sea to catch knives.

The Political and Economic Review, which is accompanied by it, continues the standard of the previous newspapers of the Mexican Party, mainly spicy criticism and satire, and at the same time includes a series of fluctuations in commodity prices, class interest interpretations of domestic policies, and so on.

It can be said that when Nanyang College was still in preparation and the planned campus was still in a barren state, the inaugural issues of the four journals caused a sensation as soon as they were released. In turn, it promoted the publicity work of Nanyang College, and for a while people in the streets and alleys were talking about that rather innovative adventure, or talking about all kinds of absurd and magical things that they had never heard of but actually existed.

Soon, a simple brushless semi-inertial DC stack copper coil finished product, on display in Mincheng, many people went to observe, and this magical thing will change people's way of life convinced, and even suggested that you can get a kite to lead down the thunder and lightning for human use.

After receiving a subsidy of 3,000 silver coins, the Meridian Observatory officially set up a project and began to use the Ganymede Astronomical Clock to determine longitude, and a large number of young people with natural knowledge and mathematical foundation who graduated from the schools controlled by the Moxican Party were supplemented, and directly became the first batch of early preparatory students who needed to return to the furnace of "astronomy and naval surveying", and some young people with secret party membership also participated in this "accurate map of the Republic" surveying and mapping work, which was very important for the future.

Under such an academically thriving scene, many people have not forgotten that the new county council of Mincheng at this time has not yet made a complete decision for the future path of Mincheng, and it is still unknown what the tone of Mincheng or the entire Minjun will be in the future - it has only been recognized by the capital, so the internal power has not yet officially begun, and the council tearing of partisan politics is still brewing.

A month after the publication of the four publications, a ship sailing from the Great Wilderness City docked in Mincheng, and many members of the Mexican Party went to meet them.

Soon after, more and more members of the Mexican Party came from Wangbei City, the Dutch shipyards, the capital, the coastal border counties, and the rest of Min County, and these openly identified figures gathered in large numbers at the Mexican Party Central Party headquarters in Mincheng, where special pickets began to be guarded with guns. The hooligans and ruffians on the street have also reined in a lot in the past few days, and they are unwilling to touch this moldy head at this time, and they are people with their tails between them.

The people of Mincheng knew that the results of the discussions made by these people at the meeting in that red brick building would have a direct bearing on the future of Minxian County, and that it would be difficult for the new county council without these people to make a decision, and that the members of the county council controlled by the Mexican Party would have the right of veto if they were a little united.

This is a force that cannot be underestimated, with money, guns, people, ideas, and organizations, and it has been stuck in Fujian like the mycelium of a mushroom, and it cannot be removed. In the same way, these people will decide to the greatest extent whether this new county council is just the power organ of the city of Mincheng? Or do you want to be the authority of the entire Min County? Will the new county council be able to provide a satisfactory solution to the problems of annexation, unemployment, vagrancy, relief, migration, bankruptcy of small producers, land, interest, rent, etc.?