在《哥白尼》一文中,当作者高度评价地动学说发表的意义时,引用了德国诗人歌德的一段话,其中一句是:『在哥伦布证实地是球形以后不久,地球为宇宙主宰的尊号,也被剥夺了。』我教这篇文章时,学生出于好奇,要求讲一讲哥伦布是如何证实地是球形的。这下可把我难住了。学过世界史的,都知道;十五世纪,欧洲各国的国王、贵族和商人都沉醉在『寻金热』中,渴望东方掠夺金银财富,因此千方百计探索通往东方的新航路。正是在这种情况下出现了一批探险家,哥伦布就是其中之一。他相信地圆学说, In the article “Copernicus”, when the author highly valued the significance of the theory of geodynamics, he quoted a German poet, Goethe, saying that "After Columbus proved to be a sphere, the earth was the honour of the universe. It was also deprived. When I was teaching this article, the students, out of curiosity, asked to tell how Columbus proved to be spherical. This can make me stumped. Those who have learned the history of the world know it; in the fifteenth century, the kings, nobles and merchants of all European countries were immersed in the “finding gold fever” and longed for the east to plunder the wealth of gold and silver, so they tried every means to explore a new route to the east. It was in this case that a group of explorers appeared, and Columbus was one of them. He believed in the doctrine of roundness,