The Royal Academy of Sciences Mechanics and Optics Research Office is located in the West College of the Royal Academy of Sciences, near the Taiye Pool, so even in the midsummer, it can be as cool as spring. In addition to Zhu Youxiao's preferential treatment, the Inner Palace Superintendent ordered the Royal Academy of Sciences to allocate an additional 10,000 silver dollars of ice and charcoal silver per month in addition to the Ministry of Works to prevent these Ming scholars who were doing scientific experiments on summer days from getting sick from heatstroke.

Galileo had just come out of the cold laboratory and entered the newly built photoelectric laboratory.

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

It is precisely because of this that as soon as Galileo came in, he felt a hot breeze coming towards him. In his white coat, he felt like fire was burning, which made him feel a little bored.

However, he was not just because this summer is more unbearable than his hometown Florence. What makes him bored is that scientific research in this country is not as free as imagined, because the court will always establish the direction of the project according to its needs. If you want to get more project funds from the court, you must apply to the court and it is best to be a topic that the court focuses on, so that the court will not be stingy with the allocation of funds for your project.

This led to many scholarly literati offices becoming more interested in topics that the court, especially His Majesty, were interested in the application research of money, while Galileo was not willing to follow the court's baton, but when he first came to the Ming Dynasty, he urgently needed improvements in his material life, so he was very bored.

Fortunately, the court's focus on the photoelectric effect was something he was interested in, so he took the initiative to find Bi Maoshi to apply for this project and cooperated with Fang Yizhi.

Galileo admired Fang Yizhi, who was younger than him but proficient in Chinese Confucianism and Yangming's studies, and was also extremely interested in natural philosophy. The two have become friends of age and are very happy to cooperate. But Fang Yizhi is obviously more bold than him. Perhaps because of his impulsiveness in his youth, he decided to go to wire to collect electricity during a thunderstorm.

Galileo didn't know how Fang Yizhi collected electricity, but he learned the next day that Fang Yizhi had fainted by the electricity and was still lying at home to rest.

So, he is the only one who manages the laboratory now.

Galileo liked the configuration of the Ming Dynasty's scientific research laboratory, which was obviously much larger than the private laboratory of the Grand Duke of Toscon, Florence. The laboratory was built in a region with rich vegetation in the royal garden, which could well isolate the hustle and bustle of the city, but the geographical location was in the city center, which facilitates convenient and efficient collection of experimental materials.

Not only that, every experimental staff here has to wear a unified white coat, from Dean Xu Ge Lao to interns, as long as they enter the laboratory, they have to do so. There are even laboratory regulations such as striking, dining, and making noise. There are special requirements for some special laboratories.

This made Galileo feel that it was very formal here.

Inside the laboratory, there are various special laboratories and equipment, test tubes, flasks, beakers, funnels, condensers, gooseneck flasks, chromatography separators, petri dishes and other various utensils, and they are placed in a regular manner and have special department management. The laboratory also has low-temperature laboratories, high-temperature laboratories, and various biochemical test benches suitable for impact, combustion, extraction, etc.

It can be said that when doing scientific research in the Ming Dynasty, as a scientific researcher, you don’t have to purchase any equipment or build a laboratory by yourself. Instead, you can just make a request to the Royal Academy of Sciences Procurement Bureau, and you don’t have to pay a penny, but Royal Industries will deliver the equipment you need as soon as possible.

Although Fang Yizhi was almost struck by lightning, he also encouraged Galileo to continue to do electrical experiments. 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 wanted to prove whether the electromagnetic induction provided by this information was correct.

However, due to the tight urging of the above, he had to go directly to experiment with magnetic induction to generate current, so he did not first prove the correctness of this data.

However, Galileo was also very curious about why the Royal Academy of Sciences had so many mysterious materials. The content provided by these materials sometimes exceeded people's imagination, but the logic was very understandable. Every time Galileo asked Fang Yizhi, Fang Yizhi only pointed out that this was the mysterious material left by the ancestors of China. Later generations were not as good as those of the ancients, so they had to try their best to explore the mystery left by the ancients.

This is actually an excuse that Zhu Youxiao deliberately found, but people in the Academy of Sciences have to believe it, and now Galileo has to believe it.

The two large magnets and countless copper wire coils, small magnetic needles and gold wires in front of him were all used by Galileo for electromagnetic induction experiments. He had failed no less than ten times. He had gnawed the data of the Royal Academy of Sciences countless times. He even changed the material of the wire to gold in order to capture the current as soon as possible. Of course, he sometimes doubted whether the electromagnetic induction mentioned in this data was correct and whether he was doing useless work.

Galileo decided that if this time fails, he would have to go straight to the right track. He would like to use wisdom to find a way to collect electricity first, and then prove whether electromagnetic induction exists, and then find a way to generate current through magnets and copper coils.

After a busy whole morning, Galileo, who was already sweating profusely, finally completed the construction of the experimental equipment and began to turn 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. Galileo's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He couldn't even believe the result in front of him, and thought it was because of the wind.

But when he turned around, he saw that he had already closed the window to avoid interference, and when he kept cutting the magnetic field, the small magnetic needle was still rotating constantly, he finally confirmed that he had successfully achieved electromagnetic induction.

Galileo was so happy that he wanted to go crazy. He had forgotten the sultry heat of the laboratory. He urgently took out the notebook and recorded all the details, and thought about optimizing the experiment as soon as possible and creating a set of equipment that can generate electricity as soon as possible. He was excited to find Fang Yizhi as soon as possible and tell him his great discovery.

However, at this moment, Galileo suddenly thought that all this seemed to have been written by the mysterious materials of the Royal Academy of Sciences, which means that the ancestors of this ancient empire had already known the mystery, which means that the first discoverer of the experiment on how to generate electricity was them, and he just copied and repeated their experiments.

When Galileo thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed and sighed helplessly. After returning home in the evening, he even wrote in his diary: "How many secrets do these great descendants of Yan and Huang have not known to us. God, why do you favor them so much?"

Galileo sighed and couldn't help but be more determined to continue his scientific research career in the Ming Dynasty, because he found that in this country, he could always learn a lot of things that he could not learn before. He even decided to apply to Zhu Youxiao, and he wanted to send a letter back to Europa to tell his family that he would stay in this country called Ming Dynasty and would sleep here for a hundred years.
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