Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 454 Galileo laments the greatness of the ancient Chinese
The Mechanics and Optics Laboratory of the Royal Academy of Sciences is located in the West Academy of the Royal Academy of Sciences, close to the Taiye Pool, so even in the midsummer heat, it can be as cool as spring. An additional [-] silver dollars per month was allocated to the Royal Academy of Sciences to prevent these Ming scholars who were still doing scientific experiments in the hot weather from getting sick from heatstroke.

Galileo had just come out of the cold research room and entered the newly built optoelectronic laboratory.

However, the laboratory requires ventilation at all times, and the windows must be large and the space must be large. Therefore, except for some low-temperature areas in the biological laboratory, this kind of mechanical and optoelectronic laboratory cannot use ice to cool down.

It was also because of this that when Galileo came in, he felt a scorching hot wind blowing towards his face. He who was wearing a white coat suddenly felt that his whole body was as hot as a fire, which made him feel a little depressed.

However, he was depressed not only because it was a summer that was more unbearable than his hometown Florence. What made him depressed was that conducting scientific research in this country was not as free as he imagined, because the court would always follow his needs. Let me set the direction of the subject for you, and if you want to get more project funds from the imperial court, you have to apply to the imperial court, and it is best for the subject that the imperial court focuses on, so that the imperial court will not hesitate to allocate funds for your subject.

As a result, many academic book offices are eager to focus on topics that are of interest to the imperial court, especially His Majesty the Emperor, or are more interested in the applied research of seeing coins. He in Daming urgently needs to improve his material life, so he is very depressed.

Fortunately, the subject of the photoelectric effect that the imperial court is focusing on is what he is interested in, so he took the initiative to find Bi Maoshi to apply for this subject, and cooperated with Fang Yizhi.

Galileo admired Fang Yizhi, who was younger than himself but was proficient in Chinese Confucianism and Yangming theory, and was also extremely interested in natural philosophy. The two had become close friends, and the cooperation was very pleasant.But Fang Yizhi was obviously bolder than him, perhaps because of his youthful impulsiveness, he decided to collect electricity with wire during a thunderstorm.

Galileo didn't know how Fang Yizhi collected the electricity, but he learned the next day that Fang Yizhi passed out and was still resting at home.

So, now he is the only one to take care of the laboratory.

Galileo liked the configuration of the Ming Dynasty's scientific research laboratory very much. The scale is obviously much larger than the private laboratory of the Grand Duke of Florence Tuscany. The laboratory was built in an area with rich vegetation in the royal garden, which can well isolate the hustle and bustle of the city. , but the geographical location is in the city center, so that the experimental materials can be collected conveniently and efficiently.

Not only that, every experimenter here has to wear a uniform white coat, from the dean Xu Ge to the interns, as long as they enter the laboratory, there are even laboratories that are not allowed to fight, eat, or make noise. There are special requirements for some special laboratories.

This made Galileo feel that this place is very formal.

Inside the laboratory, there are all kinds of special laboratories and equipment, such as test tubes, flasks, beakers, funnels, condensers, gooseneck flasks, chromatographic separators, petri dishes and other utensils. It is managed by a special department, and the laboratory also has a low-temperature laboratory, a high-temperature laboratory, and various biochemical test benches suitable for impact, combustion, and extraction.

It can be said that, as a scientific researcher, he does not need to purchase any equipment or build a laboratory by himself when conducting scientific research in Ming Dynasty. Instead, he can directly submit requirements to the Procurement Bureau of the Royal Academy of Sciences. He does not need to pay a penny, but Royal Industries will The equipment you need will be delivered in the fastest time.

Although Fang Yizhi was almost killed by lightning, he also encouraged Galileo to continue to do experiments on electricity. Before that, he and Fang Yizhi had learned about the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction based on the information of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Originally, Galileo was I want to prove whether the electromagnetic induction provided by this information is correct.

However, due to the tight urging from above, he had no choice but to take a step forward and directly do the experiment of using magnetic induction to generate current, so he did not first prove the correctness of this data.

However, Galileo was also very curious as to why the Royal Academy of Sciences had so many mysterious materials. The content provided by these materials is sometimes beyond people's imagination, but the logic is very logical. Every time Galileo asked about Fang Yizhi, Fang Yizhi It is just inferred that this is the mysterious material left by the Chinese ancestors, and the descendants are not as good as the ancients, so we have to try our best to explore the mysteries left by the ancients.

This is actually an excuse that Zhu Youxiao deliberately made up, but people in the Academy of Sciences had to believe it, and now Galileo had to not believe it either.

The machine in front of me consists of two large magnets, countless copper wire coils, small magnetic needles and gold wires, all of which were used by Galileo to conduct electromagnetic induction experiments. He has failed no less than ten times, and the information of the Royal Academy of Sciences has been gnawed countless times by him. , He even directly replaced the wire material with gold, in order to capture the current as soon as possible. Of course, he sometimes doubts whether the electromagnetic induction mentioned in this material is correct, and whether he is doing useless work.

Galileo decided that if he was unsuccessful this time, he could only follow the steps honestly. Like Fang Yizhi, he first tried to collect electricity, then proved the existence of electromagnetic induction, and then tried to find a way to generate current through magnets and copper coils.

After a busy morning, Galileo, who was already sweating profusely, finally completed the construction of the experimental equipment and started to switch to the iron rod to cut the magnetic field. Just when he thought the experiment would fail again, he found that the small magnetic needle suddenly moved. After a moment, Galileo couldn't help but thumped in his heart. He couldn't even believe the result in front of him, thinking it was because of the wind.

But when he looked back and saw that he had already closed the window to avoid interference, and when the small magnetic needle was still turning continuously when he kept cutting the magnetic field, he finally confirmed that he had successfully achieved electromagnetic induction.

Galileo wanted to go crazy with joy, he had forgotten the stuffy heat in the laboratory, he eagerly took out his notebook to record all the details, and thought about optimizing the experiment as soon as possible, and creating a set of equipment that could generate electricity as soon as possible, he Excited to find Fang Yizhi as soon as possible and tell him about his great discovery.

However, at this moment, Galileo suddenly thought that all of this seems to have been confirmed by the mysterious information of the Royal Academy of Sciences, which means that the ancestors of this ancient empire already knew the mystery inside, that is, the experiment explaining how to generate electricity They were the first discoverers of the world, and they just copied and replayed their experiments.

Thinking of this, Galileo couldn't help but feel a little lost, sighed helplessly, and wrote in his diary after returning home at night: "These great descendants of Yan and Huang, how many secrets do they have that we don't know, God Ah, why do you take such good care of them."

Galileo sighed and couldn't help but became more determined to continue his scientific research career in Daming, because he found that in this country, he could always learn a lot of things that he couldn't learn before, and he even decided to apply to Zhu Youxiao. He wants to send a letter back to Europa, telling his family that he will always stay in this country called Daming, and he will be buried here forever after a hundred years.

(End of this chapter)