Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

The underlying science of the Ice and Fire world has a lot in common with the Earth. For example, the circumference angle of the Ice and Fire world is also 360 degrees. The advantage of this artificially set number is that it can be divided by 2, 3, and 4.

Under such underlying logic, it is much easier for the doctors of the Citadel to understand the geometry in "Elements of Geometry".

Viserys's knowledge of geometry is only at the high school level, and the "Elements of Geometry" he compiled "from Valyria" only talks about the simplest primitive concepts and propositions of points, lines, planes, circles and parallel lines. Only the six volumes of content in Viserys' mind were severely castrated and had many omissions.

Volume 1 uses multiple definitions to propose the original concepts of points, lines, planes, circles, and parallel lines, and proposes multiple postulates and axioms. It studies the conditions for triangle congruence, the size relationship between the sides and angles of a triangle, the theory of parallel lines, and the conditions for equal areas of triangles and polygons; Volume 2 studies the equal area problem of polygons; Volumes 3 and 4 discuss the problem of circles and the inscribed and circumscribed polygons of circles respectively; Volume 5 discusses in detail the theory of the proportion of quantities; and Volume 6 is the theory of similar polygons.

Under the blessing of the dragon, Viserys's impression of junior and senior high school geometry in his memory is limited to this.

However, this book "Elements of Geometry" that uses axiomatic methods to establish deductive geometry knowledge has many omissions, but it has undoubtedly summarized a very convincing mathematical logic system from scattered and fragmentary experience forms, and many knowledge coincides with the knowledge system in the Academy.

Even because Viserys directly ignored the process and threw out the method and answer, such as calculating pi by the method of dividing the circle, the final result is more accurate than the number written directly in the book here in the Academy.

Viserys threw this thing out, of course, in preparation for taking over the Citadel.

Viserys planned to mobilize the doctors in the Citadel with several large-scale and eye-catching academic experiments, transfer these people out of the Citadel, separate them geographically, and enter the Citadel in the name of academic research, in order to eventually defeat these suspected secret organizations one by one.

Digging out the cancer is not something that can be done by sending troops to the Citadel, directly arresting people, torturing and questioning, burning books and burying scholars. Viserys intends to portray himself as a friend of science and his opponents as enemies of science in terms of momentum, and cut off the soil for the continued growth of this cancer as much as possible.

Since Dr. Marwyn is willing to help, Viserys is of course not polite.

These methods have always been used to arouse people's hearts.

Viserys sent Dr. Marwyn to perform the "Asshai scholar kicks the Citadel" drama, and he was not afraid that these scholars would not take the bait.

And it was just as Viserys expected. When the people he sent came to the Citadel with the Elements, the sea monster dissection plan, and the blueprints of several feasible geographical experiments, these things quickly set off an uproar among the doctors in the Citadel.

When the chief steward Theobald convened an emergency meeting and summoned many doctors in the Citadel to discuss, the three doctors who made great achievements in anatomy, Dr. Ambrose, Dr. Morath, and Dr. Osri, all expressed very eager hopes.

In addition to the doctors of history and philology.

The doctors of mathematics and astronomy, led by Dr. "Vinegar" Verin and Dr. Colin the "Quiet Stargazer", also expressed great interest in several planetary measurement experiments proposed by King Viserys.

Especially for the experiment of measuring the circumference of the world, Viserys proposed a measurement method called "Eratosthenes Method". That is, to combine astronomy and geodesy, observe the position of the sun in a day at the same time in Oldtown and one hundred leagues due north of Oldtown, and calculate the circumference of the world based on the difference in the length of the shadow of the ground object.

This method requires digging a deep well in Old Town and erecting a tall pillar a hundred leagues north of Old Town.

Measure and record the shadow length of the deep well and the pillar and the angle of the sun's light rays on the same day or multiple days, so that the angle formed by the upright long pillar, the deep well and the sun's light rays at the same time can be measured.

After obtaining these data, the mathematical law in geometry is applied: when a ray passes through two parallel lines, their diagonals are equal. In this way, the angle generated when the sun's light shines parallel to each other at the same time between the two places can be obtained through the angle difference obtained, and the arc length corresponding to this angle can be obtained, that is, the distance from Old Town to a hundred leagues away should be equivalent to the angle difference of 360 parts of the world's circumference. Once this result is obtained, the circumference of the world can be calculated by mathematical methods.

And knowing the circumference, the radius and diameter of the world ball can be known.

Of course, the premise of all this is to assume that this world is indeed a spherical star.

In addition, King Viserys also proposed a method to verify whether the world ball itself is rotating, that is, to use a spherical pendulum loaded with a gyroscope to swing naturally in a straight line on the sand table to see if the trace it leaves on the sand table is a constant line.

Also, two iron balls of different weights are dropped from the tower to see if they land at the same time.

Even the doctors who participated in the secret meeting saw these feasible experiments, and some of them became complicated: "Your Majesty Viserys is a knowledgeable and wise king. His Majesty is willing to take the initiative to find the Citadel to conduct these cooperative experiments, which shows that he is very supportive and recognized of the academic research of the Citadel, right?"

Dr. Theobold raised his eyebrows: "What do you want to say, Colin?"

"I mean, we can cooperate with King Viserys, right? If he becomes king, it will undoubtedly provide a lot of help to the research of the Citadel-"

Theobald interrupted him: "Ahem, today we will only talk about the cooperation projects proposed by King Targaryen."

Colin shut up.

Vegetarian Verin continued: "These experimental plans are very feasible, and there is also that book. I dare say that the king must have been to Valyria, and he must have more knowledge in his mind that is very useful to us."

Theobald said: "What is the purpose of his research?"

Colin couldn't help but say: "As the Asshai he sent said, he wants to verify the knowledge he learned in Valyria, right?"

Historian Galador said: "The Valyrian books collected in the Citadel have never recorded the text of these experiments sent by King Viserys. I say, why do you all think this is a good intention proposed by King Targaryen? There is no free bread in the world."

Doctors of mathematics, doctors of astronomy, and great doctors all looked at Galador. Vinegar Verin sarcastically said, "This is a serious academic issue, and you are a historian, Gallardo, you don't understand."

Galardo frowned: "What's wrong with being a historian?"

Verin replied: "I'm not looking down on you, Gallardo. I thought you could at least understand the feasibility of these academic plans and how constructive the expected results are. But I can understand that compiling historical texts takes up a lot of your time, leaving you no time to study other things."

Galardo stood up angrily: "Verin!"

As a representative of history, Dr. Perestan began to smooth things over: "Dr. Verin, history is as important as all academics. Studying history allows us to learn wisdom and lessons from it."

Dr. Osri asked: "Oh, really? Does the wisdom of history tell you what to do with the frozen sea monster specimens sent to the gate of the academy? Reject it?"

Dr. Perestan replied: "History has taught me that there is no free bread in the world."

Colin said: "King Viserys needs us, there is no doubt about that. He wants us to help him verify the knowledge of 'Valyria' that he cannot verify on his own. Look at these experiments. These ideas require knowledgeable and wise people to operate them in order to get the most convincing results. This is a win-win cooperation. Why not?"

Another doctor of history, Benedick, said: "The fact is that we can't refuse. Steward Theobald, even if we refuse these things, King Viserys will find someone else to do it. What can we get from rejecting the king's school city? Distrust and vigilance. The king needs the school city and values ​​the school city. Isn't this a good thing?"

Theobald finally couldn't help but say: "I don't deny the constructiveness of these academic experiments, but the White Walkers , wights, murlocs, dragons and sea monsters, magic and witchcraft? These things will be widely publicized with the arrival of Targaryen and the cooperative experiments with the Citadel. "

Dr. Nemos couldn't help asking: "Aren't these facts? Dragons and sea monsters have already appeared, and as far as I know, the letter from Maester Goras of Stormland mentioned "murlocs", and the news from Dragonstone mentioned the appearance of white walkers in Braavos. I mean, should we deny these facts and prohibit the spread of these news? "

Everyone looked at him, and Dr. Nemos's scalp tingled: "I just want to say that we should respect reality, right?" "Dr. Nemos, do you remember what brought back these unnatural magic and witchcraft? Do you remember the oath you made?"

Nemos swallowed: ". Of course I remember. "

Dr. Theobald said coldly: " Then don't say such stupid things. "Speaking of this, Steward Theobald said, "Doctor Benedick is right. Things have come to this point. We cannot refuse any request from King Targaryen. I admit that His Majesty Viserys may be a wise and knowledgeable king, but I believe that most of his wisdom and knowledge are biased. He has gone too far on the wrong path, and the human beings who may affect the whole world are once again in crisis. Because of him, the efforts made by the predecessors of the Academy a hundred years ago have been destroyed.

Fellow companions. The situation in the Academy has reached a critical moment again. We must swear allegiance to the rule of the Targaryen family like our ancestors did three hundred years ago, but we must also wait for the opportunity with perseverance and be ready to correct the steps of this kingdom that continue to walk on the wrong path, just like our predecessors a hundred years ago.

This is not out of selfishness, but for the bright future of the whole world! "