"Yes, he's wanted!" The Ctesi named Xiong Sanba said loudly: "His name is Giordano Bruno, a heretic who betrayed the Holy See, a heinous enemy, whoever can send him to the Jesuits will receive a huge bounty!" ”

"Shut your mouth." Guo Jujing, an older Taixi man, pulled Xiong Santu heavily and said, "Can you also make such a noise when you are evacuating?" Xiong Sanba was honest and was pulled behind by Matteo Ricci.

Many people recognized Guo Jujing and said: "It turned out to be Bishop Guo, and I thought that the missionaries were as gentle and elegant as you." ”

Guo Jujing complained in his heart that Xiong Sanba was reckless, and the good image that two generations of missionaries had established with painstaking efforts was about to be ruined here. He easily bowed to everyone and apologized: "He has just come to Middle-earth for more than a month, and he is not very familiar with the etiquette of China. ”

"Put aside the noisy ceremony first" The mountain chief of Huangpu Academy is the younger brother of the great Confucian Geng direction, the famous Confucian Geng theorem in the sea, he does not seek fame and fortune, but only concentrates on learning, and has a high reputation. Although he advocated academic freedom, he could not tolerate the teachers under him to commit crimes, so he said with a stern expression: "Please tell this friend of Taixi about Professor Bu's situation, if it is really a heinous person, my academy will never protect him!" Guo Jujing was a little embarrassed and said: "This, it's a long story." ”

"Then you'll make a long story short." Many of those who danced the "Six Dances" were Bruno's students, and they firmly did not believe that Professor Bu, who was honest and upright, would be a heinous person.

"Silence!" Geng Theorem let out a low snort, and the audience fell silent for a moment: "Please Bishop Guo speak slowly." ”

"That's the case" Guo Jujing sighed secretly, and had to explain: "In the Ming Dynasty, there are Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Nestorianism, and the Catholicism that we came later to as long as it is not a cult, it can be preached by itself. However, in Europa, dozens of countries, large and small, all believe in only one religion, that is, our Catholic Catholic Church worships God, the gospel of God is the Bible, and the status of the Bible is like the Four Books and Five Classics...... Oh no, it is undoubtedly more than the Four Books and Five Classics, like the "Emperor's Ancestral Teachings". And it is the Pope and the Holy See who uphold the sanctity of the Bible in the world. Catholicism is the ideological foundation that sustains the whole society, maintains the long-term stability of the society, and makes it almost impossible for European countries to commit large-scale killings due to the change of dynasties in history. "But heresy can shake people's minds and tear the whole society apart, just as the Emperor's Teachings cannot be questioned, and the Bible cannot be questioned, but this former priest, Mr. Bruno, is extremely capable of inciting people. He refused to admit "the Word of the Human, and some other creed, and preached a naturalistic pantheism." He attacked the clergy and the church system with obscene verses and slanders, which caused public outrage: and ended up being spurned by the saddest of all. Eight years ago, when the Holy See's Inquisition declared him guilty and was ready to arrest him, he disappeared from the continent. There are different opinions about his orientation, but they don't want to, it turns out that he fled to the Celestial Empire. As a priest who specializes in bringing people into the Church, Guo Jujing is naturally very good at speaking, avoiding Bruno's specific crimes, but only talking about their harm.

However, the students of the academy did not buy his account, and shouted loudly: "What did Professor Bu say to make you hate him so much!" ”

Guo Jujing knew that Bruno's greatest danger to the Holy See was his pantheism, but the Ming Dynasty itself was pantheistic. Therefore, when this article is said, I am afraid that it will backfire, so I made up my mind and said: "He has a lot of heresies, most of them are God's, just like someone in the Ming Dynasty who opposed Emperor Taizu, foreigners may not feel anything, but for this religion, it is the most serious blasphemy." After a pause, he said: "Of course, there are also anti-human heresies, such as his insistence that the sun is the core of the universe, and the earth revolves around the sun!" People really looked surprised, but they didn't have the anger that Guo Jujing imagined. He forgot one thing: the Chinese people have insisted on the theory that the heavens are round and the place is round for more than 2,000 years, and it has just been broken by the astronomical observations and precise arguments of Western learning. The scholars living in Jiangnan have basically abandoned their original ideas and accepted the theory of the circle of the earth, knowing that the reason why they see the earth as flat with the naked eye is because the earth is too big.

And the reason why they were able to stand up straight and steady, they speculated, may be because they happened to live on the top of the sphere.

For the people of the Ming Kingdom, there is no difference between accepting that the earth is round and the earth revolves around the sun, and the key is your proof. This is the greatest benefit that Wang Xue brought to the great Ming scholars after the rise of the Great Ming Scholar to learn with an open mind, never believing in authority, and listening to whom.

Geng asked Bruno, "What do you want to say?" "As I have always insisted on, my doctrine is based on rigorous mathematical calculations and logic." Bruno said calmly: "But just like the great poet Su Dongpo said, I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain." We live on Earth and cannot intuitively observe its movement. If you don't study astronomy and mathematics systematically, it's hard to figure out the truth here," he paused, "Unless there is a huge telescope that allows people to see those celestial phenomena that are difficult to see with the naked eye, I can demonstrate the truth to people who don't know astronomy." "There is such an astronomical mirror," and the people followed the voice, and saw that it was the young man who had come with the three Ctessi. Xu Guangqi took a step forward and said, "The student has seen a huge astronomical mirror in Qintianjian, Beijing, which can clearly see the lofty mountains and low depressions on the moon. It is not a celestial river that can see clearly, but thousands of stars gathered together. His words aroused strong interest among the people, and some people immediately suggested that the Nanjing Qin Tianjian also had such equipment, because in the astronomical theory of the Ming Dynasty, the celestial phenomena represented the will of the Heavenly Father, and all major events, including the fate of important tasks, were marked by the stars, so it was illegal for the people to observe astronomy, except for the two Jingqin Tianjian.

A kind of taboo-breaking excitement spread in the hearts of everyone, and several leading figures proposed to form an observation group of people from all walks of life to follow Bruno to Nanjing Fengtianjian to see if he could prove that the earth was rotating.

Seeing the appearance of everyone present, Shen Mo couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, only in the bizarre Wanli era, people would be "extremely poor and bored, to this extent." It's just such a vigorous curiosity, and don't be frightened by the results of observations.

A month later, a 30-member observation group composed of people from all walks of life in Shanghai set off with Bruno.

Nanjing's Qintianjian side had already been connected and agreed to lend them the world's largest astronomical telescope, which was as high as one zhang and six feet.

The members of the Observation Group listened to Bruno's lectures on astronomy and mathematics during the day, and observed the wonderful celestial phenomena with astronomical mirrors at night.

Six of them were editors of various newspapers in Shanghai, and they not only wrote down their own findings and thoughts, but also asked others to write articles, and then sent them back to Shanghai.

This refreshing observation action naturally attracted the attention of various newspapers in Nanjing. The news they released was a day earlier than in Shanghai. The observation results of the cave opened the world unsurprisingly set off a sensation in Jinling City, and then Shanghai City also caused a sensation, and then spread throughout Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and the southeast.

The observation group finally observed the appearance of the moon with their own eyes, and realized that what Xu Guangqi said was true, and it turned out that in the eyes of the naked eye, the moon palace was actually just a big round face full of holes and ugly. For this discovery, people really can't accept it, you know, how many good wishes the moon entrusts people, how can the Moon Palace, Chang'e, Jade Rabbit, Wu Gang, Guishu ............... exist on such an ugly planet?

Soon, the secret of the galaxy was also revealed, and it turned out that it was not a river of gods, but the brilliance of countless stars intertwined. If this is true, then the divine system of the [China] country will collapse...... Just thinking about it keeps conservative people awake.

So in the newspapers, people launched a rebuttal, the old-fashioned people, using the traditional scriptures to prove the moon, quoting scriptures from the "I Ching", one by one to explain that the moon is not what it sees. However, it was refuted by those who opposed it as using the fallacy of the ancients to attach the length of day and night to the length of the day and night, and ignoring the celestial phenomena of nature. They say that there was no invention of the telescope before, and that people relied on the naked eye and imagination to conceive what the universe would look like, even if there were mistakes. However, now that you can see it with your own eyes, some people are "willing to attach to the celestial phenomena that can be relied on, and those who Han Confucianism dare not attach to them, are also clumsy." , it's really pitiful and ridiculous to talk nonsense with your eyes open.

Ten days later, the observers drew a map of the moon and published it in the newspapers, but the old people still turned a blind eye, and only criticized it as a fallacy. However, the "words of the Qionglin School must confirm that the style of learning has taken root in the hearts of the people, and people no longer believe in authority as before, but are willing to believe in the evidence of the truth, especially what can be seen with the eye."

Some of the residents of Nanjing have idle time, so the queue that waits for the observation of the moon every day can be arranged from Qintianjian to Yuhutai, so that normal observation cannot be carried out. The living can't be suffocated by urine, and the rich uncles don't bother to line up with the common people, what to do, just build a few more big telescopes...... In this era when you dare to wear a dragon robe and go out, what else is there you not afraid to do?

Dongjing's strong production capacity and industrial level are undoubtedly undoubted, after taking more than ten days to cause the first day of imitation. Every two days, the craftsmen produce a telescope.

These telescopes were placed in major academies, temples, and even some wealthy families bought one directly and installed it at home...... The magnates are not necessarily interested in boring observations, but this is the focus of popularity now, and with this at home, when others can discuss where to go to see the stars, they say very calmly, I also have one at home, you might as well go to my place to see it, and you can have a drink or something, and it's quiet. This is much more exciting than the average flaunting of wealth.

The craze for national observation is nothing more than a verification of Bruno's observations, and Bruno has long been not interested in these "superficial discoveries", he has not forgotten his mission, and repeats the boring work day after day, observing those celestial bodies that he has been paying attention to for a long time, but is not in a position to observe.

He turned his lens to Jupiter and saw the small round surface of the pale yellow sè, which showed that the planet was indeed much closer than the star. At the same time, he immediately discovered that there were always four smaller points of light next to Jupiter, which were almost in a straight line, and the tracking for two months clearly revealed that they were all revolving around Jupiter, just like the moon orbiting the earth, and they should be Jupiter's moons. This shows that not all celestial bodies are revolving around the Earth! He finally got the first observational evidence of the "heliocentric theory."

This was far from enough to deal a blow to the Catholic geocentrism, but it was enough for the people of the Ming Dynasty, because it clearly showed that the celestial bodies moved according to their own laws, and not according to earthly events and the fate of important people, as in the traditional astrological theory.

There are even more people who rebel and focus the lens of observation on the North Star, because this star seems to be fixed, Zhou Tian Xingdou rotates, with it as the center, so it has always been regarded as the emperor star "Ziwei,." Through observation, people found that it was no different from other stars, and there was no legendary purple qi around it. And using the latest astronomical knowledge, it has been concluded that a North Star is only happening at the same time, facing the axis of rotation of the Earth, so that the stars of the Zhou Tian do not move, and not because it is the lord of the stars.

This conclusion was strongly supported by the Taizhou School. Li Zan and He Xinyin originally went to Nanjing to participate in the conference of staying in the capital, but after learning of this astronomical discovery, they disappeared directly, and later learned that the two hid in the home of Shao Fang, a wealthy man in Nanjing, while making up for astronomical knowledge, while observing celestial phenomena, and never even went home during the Spring Festival.

After the New Year, the two of them have not yet come out, but their articles have appeared in the newspaper and published a series of articles co-authored by one or two people, denouncing all the theories of heaven in China over the past 2,000 years as all the biggest lies fabricated by conjecture, and they are no longer worth mentioning in the face of actual observations.

It is said that the physicists read the articles of the two people, and they were all sad and depressed, but no one could stand up and argue with them. Because this time, the two no longer quote scriptures, but use empirical evidence as the basis to expose the ancient lies. The shock of this series of articles to the Ming Dynasty is too great, you must know that the stars in the sky are used to reveal the mandate of heaven, and the representative of the mandate of heaven is the emperor!

If it is proved that there is no Mandate of Heaven, how can we talk about the sacredness of the emperor's rule?

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