Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 396 Galileo wants to be a foreign academician

Galileo was not interested in being an official. For him, he just wanted to learn more about this country, and discover the mystery of how this country can develop to its current ideal state, and who proposed it in this magical country? He developed the profound and epoch-making theory that light has wave-particle duality.

The theoretical knowledge of the classical physical properties of mechanical waves and particles was unheard of by Galileo at this time, and he couldn’t help being interested in a man who was extremely interested in natural science, but he still only thinks that these may be just a certain amount of knowledge. Logical conjecture, he would like to ask if the proposer of this theory can have relevant experimental evidence.

But in fact, what Galileo didn’t know was that Newton and his three laws of Newton had not yet appeared, and classical physics had not yet been formed. Any scientific master should now understand this kind of physical theory derived from classical physics. Knowledge is definitely difficult.

So, now in Daming, except for Zhu Youxiao, an undergraduate student who has only studied basic physics, who can give him a little systematic explanation, no one can explain to him from the three laws of mechanics to what is wave-particle duality and the generation of light. The principle is explained clearly.

But Zhu Youxiao definitely wouldn’t have so much free time to teach a foreign book office. If Galileo was smart enough, he could learn everything he wanted to know in the library and laboratory of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Galileo's coming to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Ming Dynasty is like an ordinary employee who has just joined the job. It is not a grand event in the entire Royal Academy of Sciences.

Therefore, when Xu Guangqi led him to the Royal Academy of Sciences, he did not hold any welcome ceremony.

Most of the people staying at the Royal Academy of Sciences are scholars of Jinshi or Juren background. Even the book office like Galileo is also a scholar of scholar background. For example, Fang Yizhi from Tongcheng, Anhui is now the most proud student of Xu Guangqi, the principal of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Students, undertook most of Xu Guangqi's following theoretical topics.

Perhaps most of these scholars in the Royal Academy of Sciences are too interested in miscellaneous studies, so that they are not so ideal in the imperial examination, but they are still scholars after all, and they ignore the common people at the bottom. The kind of western food is even more disregarded.

They don't care whether Galileo is the father of modern experimental science or not. After all, in their opinion, they are now considered to be the best in the whole world in terms of miscellaneous knowledge, and Ming is not inferior to any country in any aspect. .

So when Galileo came to the Royal Academy of Sciences, almost no one was willing to communicate with him, even Ricci and Tang Ruowang. Although they were far behind Galileo in the history of science, in the real life of Ming Dynasty, these two The double academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of Engineering both have the honorable official title of the fifth rank, and one is the core technical director of the Daming Ship Administration Bureau. He is the chief adviser of the company, and he is involved in everything from artillery to muskets.

Therefore, even though they were all foreigners working for Daming, Tang Ruowang and Matteo Ricci were not willing to pay attention to the old man Galileo.

Although Xu Guangqi thought in his heart that there was no need for the Grand Master to go to Europa to find someone with knowledge of miscellaneous knowledge to come to Daming, but since His Majesty insisted on doing so, he couldn't say much. Now that he has come, he also hopes that Galileo can come up with With these achievements, Xu Guangqi was still polite to Galileo.

But Xu Guangqi is a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion after all, and most of his energy is spent on some major decisions of the Ministry of Industry and the court, and sometimes he has to deal with the struggle between Qian Qianyi and Li Mingrui, so he can't spare this Galileo , and handed over this task to Fang Yizhi.

However, this can be regarded as a false attack. Fang Yizhi, as a member of the Fushe, can be reused by Zhu Youxiao because he likes to study things, that is, the study of physics. Although Fang Yizhi does not agree with some of His Majesty's policies today, But fortunately, let him just do research, and he doesn't care much about politics.

Now that Galileo came, Fang Yizhi chatted with Galileo, and became friends for years. Although the communication efficiency was not high because of the language communication problem, for Galileo, he was the only friend in Daming. up.

"Your Majesty treats those of us who do research very favorably. Every academician has his own research institute in the Royal Academy of Sciences. Usually it is a large garden. In order to save people's resources, His Majesty directly opened up the Royal West Garden. Come out, the place we are staying in now is Heshun Garden, which is now Xu Ge's research institute, and you and I and the few people transferred from the Imperial Academy are Xu Ge's book office. Each academician will have Scholars (researchers), we serve as academics with Bi Maoshi. This person is the younger brother of Mr. Bi Maokang of the Ordnance Department. Like Academician Tang Ruowang who is good at formulating artillery rules, he often stays in the Ordnance Department. He usually does not come back to the Royal Academy of Sciences. I'm also busy, so I'm basically the only one in this lab, and now you're here as two."

As Fang Yizhi said, he took Galileo into a courtyard: "This will be the Mechanics and Optics Research Office where you and I will stay. Bi Maoshi is a scholar who is good at using the foundation of mechanics to improve the range of firecrackers, so His Majesty let him do it here. , I decided on optics, and you will stay here to work on mechanics in the future. The hatchback room of this thing is a laboratory, you can design your own experiments, and you can directly go to the opposite Royal Industrial Company for experiments. Bureau, what they make is the equipment for our experiments, but we don’t need to pay, basically Bi Maoshi’s pedantic application for reimbursement from above.”

Galileo listened to the general idea in a trance. He didn't expect that a person who engages in this kind of academic research would also have his own courtyard, equipped with a garden and a pool, just like doing experiments in the back garden of the Ducal Palace in Florence. Looking at the various glassware and other strangely shaped equipment in the hatchback room, he was even more surprised, and what surprised him the most was that in the west wing room, he found that he had always wanted to do something in his mind but didn't know what to do. A telescope with special functions, that is, a telescope that can observe astronomy.

Galileo didn't know that these were some super-era equipment that Zhu Youxiao randomly got in the first few years after the first time travel, but he only knew that this country had given him too many surprises.

Galileo was so excited, he wanted to confirm some scientific conjectures that he had been wondering about with experiments, but he couldn't do this now, because he found that what he needed most now was to improve his understanding of Chinese characters. The degree of mastery, at least to be able to write articles, so that people in this country can understand.

Moreover, Galileo was a little envious of the current academicians like Matteo Ricci and Tang Ruowang who could enjoy such a large-scale experimental site and experimental assistants from the bottom of his heart. He didn't think he would be inferior to these missionaries.

(End of this chapter)