Chapter 7                                                              

"Zhou Mengchen is such a big name, but he is just copying the book of foreigners." Wu Heng seemed to have recovered and almost jumped up. The blue veins on his forehead seemed to be about to break, and he said loudly after picking his voice.

Zhou Mengchen frowned slightly and said, "Oh----."

Apart from that, there is no other expression.

Ignoring is the greatest contempt for people. Wu Heng suddenly felt that the four words "bad and stupid" were engraved on his forehead, and he almost rushed over and swung his sleeves to hit Zhou Mengchen. However, most of the people in the Imperial Heaven Prison were knowledgeable.

Although people outside may not admit that they are scholars, they themselves think they are. Yang Shoujing also decided not to let the fine traditions of civil officials of the Ming Dynasty be carried forward in the Imperial Heaven Supervision.

So when Wu Heng stood up, many people immediately grabbed Wu Heng.

Yang Shoujing said, "What are you doing? Have something to say."

Wu Heng then said angrily: "I have evidence, I have evidence. I will get it now, and I will get it now." Then he left without saying hello to anyone.

After a moment, he took a book angrily and handed it to the person on the side, saying, "Look, is it a plagiarism?"

Zhou Mengchen looked at it from a distance and knew it was an ancient book. Because Zhou Mengchen could see that this book was a butterfly costume, not a thread-coated book common in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Butterfly costume began in the late Tang and Five Dynasties and was popular in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It was to fold the paper with words in half in the inside, then use the middle seam as the basis, align all pages, paste them on another pack of back paper, and then cut them into a book.

This binding method was no longer common in the Ming Dynasty.

Most of the Ming Dynasty were thread-bound books.

Zhou Mengchen also learned cold knowledge after he came to the Ming Dynasty. In other words, some of the books in the Zhou family’s collection were ancient books in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and naturally there were books in butterfly costumes.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen concluded that this book should be an ancient book from the Yuan Dynasty even recently.

The people in the Imperial Heaven Supervisor also looked at each one, and then looked at Zhou Mengchen with a different look.

Soon this book was passed on to Zhou Mengchen.

There were a few people on Zhou Mengchen's reading cover who respectfully wrote "The Book of Ou's Book". Zhou Mengchen already had some feelings in his heart. He opened it and saw that Zhou Mengchen was so familiar with the definition that had just begun, the axioms and other contents.

This is nothing else.

It is "The Origin of Geometry".

Zhou Mengchen was full of doubts and thought to himself: "Is "The Origin of Geometry" not translated by Xu Guangqi in the late Ming Dynasty?" However, this thought only flashed through Zhou Mengchen's mind. After all, this point is no longer important.

Zhou Mengchen didn't know.

These books were all books brought from the West during the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, it was Arabic, that is, Huigong documents.

If you understand history, you will understand that many Arab nature books and many Christian nature books are translated into each other. The twelve zodiac signs mentioned later in ancient times were the first in ancient times. In fact, the famous astronomer Belin of the Ming Dynasty translated and returned to the content of the "Seven Steps to the Political Department" published by the astronomer Belin of the Ming Dynasty.

The Wu Heng family is the Semi people who came from the West. Now more than ten generations have passed. Although Wu Heng has some foreign characteristics, it is actually no longer different from the Han people. However, among his Wu family's collection, there are also the original collection of books from the Yuan Dynasty.

It's like this book "European Book of Calculation".

The reason why it is called "Euclidean Book of Arithmetic" is actually a book of arithmetic written by Euclide. It is just a different translation path.

Of course, the reason why this book has been in the box for so many years is that the Wu family regards these collections as secrets of the Wu family, but it is because this translation is quite bad. I don’t know if the translator is not as good as Xu Guangqi, or if the book is translated from Latin to Arabic and then translated by a second-rate translator into Chinese. It is quite obscure.

If it weren't for Zhou Mengchen's "Pythagorean Explanation", there were considerable contents that were the same as "Ox's Book of Conclusion", I'm afraid this book would not have been remembered by Wu Heng.

Zhou Mengchen did not have the origin behind his thoughts and another translation of the original geometric form buried in history. Instead, he laughed and said, "I wish I could travel with this person, it is really a hero who sees the same thing."

Wu Heng said: "You who deceive the world and steal the reputation dare to speak loudly?"

Zhou Mengchen said indifferently: "What is deceiving the world to steal reputation? Although this person is a Western barbarian, he has a great vision and knowledge, not as good as many ancient masters, and is also a hero of his generation. He cannot be said to deceive the world to steal reputation."

When Wu Heng heard Zhou Mengchen's words, he looked angry and said, "I'm talking about you."

Zhou Mengchen even smiled softly and said, "It's ridiculous to say that I am. If people in the world are not proficient in math, suddenly one person moved ten fingers and understood from one to ten, and the other person soon understood that if the number goes from one to ten, can you say that the latter is copying the former?"

"Those who count, those who are born in the world, are only a few of us who can see."

"I can have such a relationship with the wise men of the Western Barbarians after a thousand years, as if I met a confidant. The taste of it is not something that can be seen by mediocre people."

Zhou Mengchen did not plagiarize "Geometric Originals" because he only learned some knowledge from geometric Originals, but did not really get through geometric Originals. Even if he wanted to plagiarize, he had no way to plagiarize. Of course, many of them were roughly the same. Especially when he first started, some definitions were almost the same.

But it was different later. After all, Zhou Mengchen added the content of the trigonometric function later, and the depth and breadth of the content were far beyond "Geometric Original".

This is also the name behind Zhou Mengchen's concern.

After all, Zhou Mengchen may not have seen books coming from the West in his entire life, but Zhou Mengchen wanted to think, perhaps he would be dead one day in the future. Suddenly, someone discovered that some Western math books were exactly the same as the books he wrote at the beginning.

How can future generations see his glorious image?

For this little consideration, Zhou Mengchen naturally had to come up with some different things, and these rhetorics were also the excuses that Zhou Mengchen prepared for his future and even after his death. But he never expected that he could use them now.

In fact, the interactions between countries in ancient times were not as closed as later generations thought.

It can be said that the senior leaders of the Qing Dynasty have always been related to the Western world. It is just that the senior leaders of the Qing Dynasty were born with barbarian inferiority complex. The manifestation of this symptom is that they must be sure that they are better than outsiders. If this is not the case, they will also think of ways to distort this fact.

Just like when the Ming Dynasty was founded, there was a Hui Hui Imperial Heavenly Prison, which used a large number of Hui Hui to calculate the calendar. During the Chongzhen period, there was also Chongzhen calendar, which almost purely used Westerners. However, in the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi studied Western academics by himself, but he had to determine the theory of the Middle Origin of Western learning and blocked and monopolized academic exchanges with foreign countries.

After hearing this, Wu Heng was speechless for a moment. His face looked extremely ugly.

In fact, he also vaguely thought of this. Today, he used this trick, but it was not during yesterday's discussion. This was after reading "Pythagorean Explanation" yesterday, and he felt a little familiar. After going back, he turned his collection of books into the sky and found out that this collection of books.

He didn't want to take it out today because he was not sure.

But I didn't expect that as soon as I opened my mouth today, I was humiliated to this extent by Zhou Mengchen, and I suddenly lost any rationality.

It’s just that Zhou Mengchen’s attack on him was not too late.

Zhou Mengchen sighed at the "Ou's Book of Conclusion" in his hand and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity that this person's achievements are not inferior to Zhang Cang, Liu Hui, and Qin Jiushao. This book was originally published in the world, allowing those who are interested in the world to study together, but he did not expect that because of the villain's own personal selfishness, he would hide this treasure book in the secret room. He is really the sinner of our calculation students."

Zhou Mengchen actually has something to reserve.

It’s not that Zhou Mengchen is polite to Wu Heng, but that Zhou Mengchen knows that he has said it deeply and no one here can understand it. Geometry is how important this book is in the history of thought, and it is almost one of the sources of all science. This is for future generations, not for people of this era.

Different eras have different evaluation criteria.
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