Chapter 33: A Cross-Border Newton?
Li Dan was originally going to go back to the dormitory to get a good night's sleep, but he couldn't control his feet halfway through, and came to the gate of a retro four-story building.
The top of the building is in the style of an ancient palace, and the whole building is shaped like an unfolded book.
This is the school's library.
Although Li Dan's municipal middle school is at the lower middle level of the city in terms of hardware facilities and college entrance examination results over the years, it is not ranked among the middle schools in the province.
However, the library on this campus is one of the best among all secondary schools in the province.
Whether it is the construction area, interior decoration, or software facilities of the library, it is one of the best in the province, and the number of books and the breadth of disciplines involved can even be compared to the libraries of some first-class undergraduate universities.
However, there are very few students who come to the library to read books.
First, high school students spend most of their time on homework and exams, starting from the morning reading after 6 o'clock in the morning until the end of the evening self-study at 9:40 in the evening.
Second, most of the depth and breadth of knowledge in this library's collection have exceeded the scope of ordinary high school students, and at most there are some literary masterpieces that will be borrowed by a few students who love literature.
Most of the books sit quietly on the shelves, unattended.
Li Dan didn't know what was wrong with him today, as a senior scumbag, how could he run to the school library by mistake?
Usually, as long as he has free time, he must lie on the bed and play with his mobile phone comfortably, sleep for a while when he is tired of playing, and continue to play with his mobile phone when he wakes up.
However, now there is only an old-fashioned Nokia copycat in his trouser pocket, and he can only play Snake and Tetris!
If you are poor, you will think about change!
Sure enough, after a person is extremely bored, he will really do something unbelievable.
Backbite! Student Card!
After Li Dan took out the student card and swiped it on the access control, he walked into the huge empty library.
At the front desk of the library, there is a young lady in her early 20s, who is lying on the back of an office chair bored, watching the latest TV series "Love Apartment 5" on her mobile phone.
Before, the girl's mobile phone was loud and loud, and it was obvious that it was a little too quiet to be alone in such a large library.
After seeing Li Dan come in, the girl obviously felt that her posture of lying on her back was a little indecent, so she straightened up slightly, plugged in headphones to her mobile phone, and continued to watch the drama silently.
If someone comes in the library, the girl will walk over and chat for a few days, dissipating boredom and loneliness.
But after seeing Li Dan's dignity, the girl silently chose to ignore it, rather than talking to such a male student who looks full of slots, it is better to continue watching the drama to be more eye-catching.
Li Dan came to the bookshelf of the world's famous books for the first time, and soon found the book "Pride and Prejudice".
Unfortunately, there is only a Chinese translation in the library, and there is no original English text.
"Saw Elizabeth and Darcy meet at the ball this morning......"
Li Dan can't wait to continue to enjoy the next plot.
However, after only looking at it for a few seconds, Li Dan's brows furrowed slightly.
Why do you look at the Chinese translation in front of you and suddenly feel that this novel is not fragrant at all?
That feeling is like seeing a domestic remake of a classic Hollywood movie, not only are all the actors using domestic actors, but the dialogues are also in Mandarin, and even the plot has a bit of a Chinese flavor.
In a word, it feels like something is wrong nowhere, like reading two completely different novels!
Boring......
Li Dan originally came with full expectations, but he didn't expect that the higher the expectations, the higher the disappointment, and instantly had a feeling of wanting to escape from the library.
It's still more interesting to have a collection of books in Dachun's study, but it's not good to always go to his house to read books......
Li Dan glanced at the time on his phone, it was just four o'clock in the afternoon, and there was still one hour before the end of the exam.
Now the whole school is either in class or taking exams, and if you wander around the school aimlessly, you will be picked up by the dean of academic affairs.
What other books are in the library?
Li Dan had a flash of inspiration, remembering the philosophy book "Critique of Pure Reason" that Lin Xian'er mentioned to him in the morning, and he didn't know if there was a Chinese translation in the library.
He will not be able to learn German for a while, and he is not willing to waste a reading card to study, and he may be able to understand the words of the Chinese translation.
Li Dan found a philosophical bookshelf in the corner of the library, and soon found the Critique of Pure Reason, written by Immanuel Kant.
"Kant?"
Li Dan just felt that the name was very familiar, as if he often heard someone quote his famous quotes in various TV shows.
I want to see what is so good about the philosophy books that even Lin Xian'er is so interested in......
Li Dan turned the first page, starting with "Van Rolla no Beko: The Preface to the Great Revolution", and when he saw the first chapter, "The Difference Between Pure Knowledge and Empirical Knowledge", his head began to buzz, as if it would explode at any time.
Obviously, he knows every Chinese character on it, but once the sentence is formed, it becomes extremely difficult to understand, and the translator himself does not know whether he has understood Kant's original German text.
Li Dan still has a green reading card lying quietly in his head, which is the reward for signing in at 8 o'clock this morning.
If it weren't for the comprehensive science exam, he would have liked to use it in this philosophy book now to see how effective it was.
Forget it, the college entrance examination comes first. When you are admitted to university, you will come back to clean up when you have an extra reading card!
Li Dan was not interested in literary works at all, he couldn't read philosophical works, and he didn't know what to do next.
At this time, when Li Dan was passing by a row of natural science bookshelves, he suddenly saw a book "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", and he was immediately interested.
This book is really wonderful, it contains both the philosophy that I can't understand, and the mathematical knowledge that I am most interested in, what kind of magical book will it be?
Li Dan took the book from the bookshelf and saw that the author was Isaac Newton.
Newton? Could it be Newton, who discovered the three laws of mechanics?
Isn't he a physicist? How did you write a book on philosophy and mathematics across the line?
Could it be that crossover has been popular since hundreds of years ago?
Newton also did such a strange thing as "go other people's way, so that others have no way to go"?