Once, my brother inexplicably asked Copernicus, "Is it filial piety for you to stay at the window all night and stare at the sky?"
Copernicus replied, "No, I want to study the weather all my life so that people are not afraid to look at the sky." I want the starry sky to make friends with people and let it correct the course for seagoing ships and guide the voyage for sailors. "
Love counting stars, became an astronomer-Hengli.
1905 On a sunny summer day, in a courtyard in Chengdu, mother and children are having an interesting conversation. The 7-year-old child leaned against his mother's arms, and a pair of little hands pointed to the starry night sky and asked, "Mom, mom, what star is that?" "That's called Altair and Vega." Mom said she wanted to continue. "Once upon a time, there were seven fairies in the sky …" "Mom, mom, I'm not talking about Altair and Vega, then I already know them. I mean these."
The little boy interrupted his mother and shook her hand in a hurry. The mother looked down at her son's hand and finally understood, "Oh, that's the Big Dipper. At night, if you get lost and can't tell the direction, you can tell the southeast and northwest as long as you see it.
The Big Dipper is located in the north of the sky and consists of seven stars, so people usually call it the Big Dipper. The mother spoke patiently, while the son blinked and listened, while pointing to the sky and counting: "one, two, three, four." ... ""What do you count all day? Star, can you eat as a meal? Still not going to school. " Following the sound, a middle-aged man came out of the room. He is the father of the child. The mother and son were frightened into the house, and the father followed them into the house. The father never imagined that this child who loves to count stars later became a famous astronomer in China and wrote a university question on the stars. He is Hengli.