Chapter 399 Galileo wants to be a foreign academician
Galileo was not interested in whether he could become an official. For him, he only wanted to further understand this country and discover the mystery of the country's ability to develop to this ideal state today, and who in this magical country proposed the profound and epoch-making theory of light having wave-particle duality.
The theoretical knowledge of the classical physical properties of mechanical waves and particles was unheard of for Galileo at this time. He couldn't help but be interested in a very interested in natural science. However, he still felt that these might just be logical conjectures. He wanted to ask the proposer of this theory if there are relevant experimental evidence.
But what Galileo didn't know was that Newton and his three laws had not yet appeared, and classical physics had not yet been formed. It would be difficult for any scientific master to understand this kind of physics theoretical knowledge derived from classical physics.
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, except for Zhu Youxiao, an undergraduate student who only studied basic physics, who could explain it to him slightly systematically, no one could explain it clearly from the three laws of mechanics to what wave-particle duality is and the principle of light generation.
But Zhu Youxiao certainly won't have so much time to teach a foreign book. 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 visit to the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty is like an ordinary employee who has just joined the company, and it is not a very grand event in the entire Royal Academy of Sciences.
So when Xu Guangqi led him to the Royal Academy of Sciences, he did not hold any welcome ceremony.
Most of the scholars who stay in the Royal Academy of Sciences are scholars from Jinshi or Juren. Even the same literati as Galileo is also scholars from scholars. For example, Fang Yizhi from Tongcheng, Anhui is now the most proud student under Xu Guangqi, the head of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and undertakes most of the theoretical issues below Xu Guangqi.
Perhaps most of these scholars at the Royal Academy of Sciences were too interested in miscellaneous studies and were not so ideal in the imperial examinations, but they were also scholars and ignored the common people at the bottom, so they ignored Western scholars like Galileo.
They didn't care whether Galileo was the father of modern experimental science. After all, in their opinion, with mixed knowledge, they are now the leader of the whole world. The Ming Dynasty was 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 Matteo Ricci and Johnson Than. Although they were far inferior to Galileo in the history of science, in the real life of the Ming Dynasty, both of them were both academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and they also had the title of a fifth-rank noble official. One was the core technical instructor of the Ming Dynasty's Shipbuilding Bureau. The data on steam-powered ships were almost determined by Matteo Ricci, and Johnson Than Than was the chief consultant of the Ordnance Department, and he participated from artillery to muskets.
Therefore, even though they were foreigners working for the Ming Dynasty, Johnson Chan and Matteo Ricci were reluctant to pay attention to the old man Galileo.
Although Xu Guangqi thought in his heart that there was no need for the master to go to Europa to find someone who knew miscellaneous studies to come to the Ming Dynasty, since His Majesty insisted on doing so, he didn't have to say much. Now that he has come, he hopes that Galileo can achieve some results, so Xu Guangqi is still polite to Galileo.
But Xu Guangqi was a Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion after all, and most of his energy was spent on some major decisions of the Ministry of Works and the court. Sometimes he had to deal with the struggle between Qian Qianyi and Li Mingrui, so he couldn't get away with this Galileo, so he handed the task to Fang Yizhi.
However, this is a coincidence. Fang Yizhi, as a person in the Fushe Society, was reused by Zhu Youxiao because this person likes to study things, which is physics. Although Fang Yizhi does not agree with His Majesty's policies today, fortunately, he only does research, so he doesn't care much about politics.
Now that Galileo comes, he chats with Galileo with wisdom and becomes a friend of his age. Although the communication efficiency is not high due to language communication problems, Galileo is also the only friend in the Ming Dynasty.
"Your Majesty treats us who are engaged in research very favorably. Every academician has his own special research institute in the Royal Academy of Sciences, which is usually a garden that covers a large area. His Majesty directly opened up the Royal West Garden to save people's strength. The place we are now in Heshun Garden, now is Xu Ge Lao's research institute. And you and I have the few who have transferred from the Hanlin Academy are Xu Ge Lao's clerks. Each academician will have scholars (researchers). We are serving Bi Maoshi's scholars. This person is the younger brother of Lord Bi Maokang of the Ordnance Department. Like Academician Tang Ruowang who is good at making cannon rules, he often stays in the Ordnance Department. Usually he doesn't come back to the Royal Academy of Sciences, and Mr. Xu Ge Lao is also busy, so I am basically the only one in this research room. Now you come here and you will be two."
Fang Yizhi said that, and then took Galileo into a courtyard house: "There will be the Mechanics and Optics Research Laboratory where you and I will stay. Bi Maoshi is good at using the foundation of mechanics to improve the range of the musket, so Your Majesty asked him to do the cadet here. I have set up the optics. You will stay here to do mechanics in the future. Both sides of the two-sided rooms are laboratories. You can design your own experiments. You can go directly to the Experimental Bureau of the Royal Industrial Company opposite to get it. What they do is the equipment for our experiments, but we don't have to pay. Basically, Bi Maoshi's scholar applies for reimbursement from the above."
Galileo listened in a daze. He didn't expect that a person who was doing such academic research would have his own courtyard, equipped with a garden and a pool. Just like doing an experiment in the back garden of the Duke's Mansion in Florence. When he looked at the various glassware and other strange-shaped equipment in the two-way room, he felt even more surprised. What surprised him the most was that he actually found a special telescope in his mind that he had always wanted to do but had not done, that is, a telescope that could observe astronomical things.
Galileo didn't know that these were some super-era equipment that Zhu Youxiao had made in the first few years after his time travel, but he only knew that there were too many surprises this country gave him.
Galileo was so excited that he wanted to immediately verify some of the scientific conjectures he had been puzzled here, but he could not do these things now, because he found that what he needed most now was to improve his mastery of Chinese characters, at least to be able to write articles so that people in this country could see it clearly.
Chapter completed!