Also at dawn, it does rise up from the sea.
Or is it true, as English think,
That the shape of the earth is like an orange?
And does the sun, standing still, never move?
Amusingly, the earth itself rotates,
Even the three worlds are so huge.
How dull I am not to understand how it can be."
by the Siam interpreter who familiar with the western ideas
The questions about our nature, especially on the astronomical matter, had been asked out of curious by Siamese widely through out the time. The King Mongkut was an expert on the calculation and the concepts of the stars, who happened to raise a new concept against the old belief and support the western concept of the earth.
Clashes between two ideas arose from the two different believes of the world nature; Thai indigenous astronomy based on Traiphum and Western astronomy. This is what happened when two culture widely different in the modernized matter. It's almost like a war that both sides tried to win the argument, and dominated their believes. Luckily, the journey of the king who fighting for his own belief did shown in the experimental day at Wako, after since the old belief for example that the earth was flat was swept away. This is one example of transnational phenomenon that there's relationships in one territory and when another relationship from outside penetrating in, then the different is created and the conflict is possible. The idea of nation-state whether is an offspring of the making of map or vice versa is still questioned.
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