Summary “Two astronomers happened to feast together” Lomonosov
Lomonosov wrote not only scientific works, but also poetic works. A significant place in his work is occupied by odes of various contents, as well as other poems, in which both the sublime and the ordinary subjects are narrated. Thus, in the poem “Two Astronomers Happened Together in a Feast…”, written in 1761, the author discusses a complex scientific problem, resorting to the form of a parable. There were two Astronomers together in a feast and argued very much among themselves in the heat. One repeated: the earth, turning, the circle of the Sun goes; Another thing is that the Sun carries all the planets with itself: Copernicus was alone, the other was Ptolemy.
Then the chef decided to smile his smile. The owner asked: “Do you know the stars, do you know how?” He gave the following answer: “That Copernicus is right, I will prove the truth, I have not been to the sun. Who saw a simpleton from cooks that would turn the hearth around the frying
In the East, the parables of Hadji-Nasreddin are very popular, in which the hero appears as a philosopher and sage, it looks rather silly. Lomonosov in his improvised poetic parable introduces characters who in real life could never meet and talk, as they lived in different historical epochs, separated by several hundred years. One of them is Nikolai Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who lived at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries and scientifically substantiated the heliocentric theory of the universe, proving that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Another character of Lomonosov’s poem is Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek scientist who lived in the 2nd century AD, who believed that the Sun moves around the Earth. His views for a long time dominated astronomy, and the Catholic Church severely pursued those who tried to refute them. Introducing the image of the cook into the poem, which solves the dispute between two great scientists, Lomonosov reduces
However, this does not detract from the peculiarity of this small witty poem in which Lomonosov not only in somewhat fantastic form shows the centuries-old conflict of supporters of two different theories of the universe. The author also lets the reader understand what the author’s own views on this problem are.
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