Into Unscientific Chapter 27

  Chapter 27 Destined Encounter (Part 2)

   crunch—

  The sound of the joints of the carriage stopped quickly attracted the attention of everyone under the shade of the tree, and even William's expression gradually became serious.

   After a while.

  Hoo—

  Following the sound of a door curtain being raised, a figure slowly stepped down from the carriage.

  The person who came was a man in his early thirties, short and hunchbacked, wearing a powdered wig made of horse hair and a gray bottomed robe.

It is worth noting that the fabric of the gown is actually an extremely rare silk—although Gaul in the 17th century already had a complete silk production system, and Lyon even became the center of European silk production and design, but before the spinning jenny At the time of its appearance, silk was still a luxury item at the ceiling level.

  If tea leaves in this period belonged to the level of Rolls-Royce Phantom, silk almost belonged to the level of Bentley Continental.

  Based on the current map of England, the visitor is at least a rich second generation at the borough level, or a capable wealthy businessman.

  Looking at the man who was walking towards them, William frowned slightly, and carefully protected Elura and Lilani behind him, while Mrs. William subconsciously stood in front of Andrea.

  As for Lisa, she was left aside—in this era, under the same assumptions, the safety of adult women is actually higher than that of children.

  The specific topic is too sensitive, so I won't repeat it here.

   But beside Lisa, Xiao Niu has quietly picked up his holy book, planning to convince others with reasoning if something goes wrong.

   Gollum—

  William looked at the man who was getting closer and closer, and his Adam's apple rolled a few times. Before the other party came, he still maintained a certain respect:

   "Sir, what can I do for you?"

  The visitor raised his eyelids and glanced at him, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, stretched out his hand and pressed down, signaling him not to be nervous:

   "Please rest assured, sir, I'm probably not the kind of person you think."

   Then he walked up to the calf, stared at his Cambridge University uniform, and focused on the Trinity College badge for a few seconds:

   "Cambridge, Trinity College?"

   I don't know if it's because of the high position, but the tone of the visitor was a little questioning, which made the Mavericks feel a little uncomfortable for no reason.

  But at this time, Mavericks is still just the youthful version of the irascible old man in the future. His lack of status and identity makes him not confident enough, so he just replied dryly:

   "Exactly."

   "Is that Isaac Barrow's student?"

   "Exactly."

  Hearing this sentence, the visitor suddenly snorted coldly.

"What's your name?"

   There was a glimmer of gloom in Maverick's eyes, and he said after a few seconds:

   "Isaac Newton."

  The visitor narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he sensed Maverick's displeasure:

   "Isaac Newton? Good name.

  Let me introduce myself, Robert Hooke, who is currently a professor of geometry at Gresham College. "

  Hearing these words, before Mavericks and William's family could react, Xu Yun's heart constricted so hard that he almost broke the bread in the leaf bag!

   It turned out to be him? !

   Anyone who knows a little about Mavericks' experience should know it.

  In Mavericks' 85-year-old life, there was one person who was inseparable from him as both a teacher and an enemy.

  When Newton is mentioned, this person must be mentioned.

  He is Robert

   Hook!

  Hook was born in July 1635, seven and a half years older than Mavericks. He had excellent grades since he was a child, and was admitted to the prestigious Oxford University when he grew up.

   However, due to some reasons, Hooker did not graduate with a degree in the end, but was lucky to become Boyle's scientific research assistant.

  Due to his outstanding scientific insights, in 1662, this extraordinary young scientist was recommended as the director-general of the Royal Society Laboratory, and soon became a fellow of the Royal Society.

   And being able to love and kill Mavericks for decades later, Hooker's ability is naturally nothing to say.

  In terms of mechanics, Hooke proposed Hooke's law, which is the basic law of elastic mechanics and material mechanics, and the law is widely used.

  In the American drama "Prison Break", Mi Shuai used an egg beater to break through the reinforced concrete wall of the prison according to Hooke's law.

  In optics, he initiated the wave theory, and he is as famous as Huygens, the head of the Gaul Academy of Sciences.

  At the same time, Hooker is also a master of DIY. With his magical hands, he has expanded the vision of human beings in the two worlds of extremely large and extremely small:

  He improved the telescope, observed Jupiter's Great Red Spot and lunar craters for the first time, improved the microscope, discovered and named the cell (another Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria), and his masterpiece "Micrography" was very popular in Luoyang.

  However, it was very dramatic that just when Hooker was in the limelight for a while, the Mavericks came.

  In 1668, young Newton put the first reflecting telescope on the desk of the Royal Academy of Sciences, which directly angered Hooke.

  The reflecting telescope was the most advanced telescope design at the time, and it directly invaded two of Hooke's areas of expertise at the Society:

  Optics and instrument design.

When this small and exquisite model with performance surpassing previous refracting telescopes appeared, Hooker felt that his status was challenged, so he did not join the camp of praising reflecting telescopes, but declared loudly that he was the one who made practical reflecting telescopes Priority person.

  Hook emphasized at the meeting that he made a reflecting telescope of only 3 centimeters seven years before the Mavericks, and its performance was stronger than other telescopes up to 15 meters long.

  He even has a smaller design that can be installed in a pocket watch, but further research has been delayed due to the spread of the Black Death and the reconstruction of the Great Fire of London.

  The controversy hurt Mavericks so much that he even threatened at one point to withdraw from the Royal Society because it evoked a brutal boyhood experience.

  Finally, under the mediation of Henry Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society, the two parties finally reached a "reconciliation".

  But since then, Mavericks has been "reclusive" in Cambridge and no longer publishes his academic achievements.

   But the grievances between Mavericks and Hooke did not end. In 1679, Hooke wrote a letter to Newton.

  After a series of discussions about mechanics, Hooke told Newton that he believed that there was a gravitational force between any two objects, and this gravitational force was inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the objects, which is the so-called inverse square law.

  In layman's terms, Hooker generously pointed out the Maverick's mistakes, and didn't hide and watch him make detours.

   But he also proudly said that this kind of calculation needs a new type of tool, so Niuzi, you know where you are wrong and you can't figure it out, just a little~

   This tool is actually calculus, which is what Mavericks calls his algebra, and it was close to perfection at that time.

   But Maverick is such a thief, he just didn't tell Hu Ke about it, and secretly deduced the formula of universal gravitation by himself.

  In 1687, with the support of the British astronomer Halley, Mavericks published one of the greatest works in the history of human science, "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", and later generations referred to him as "Principles".

  In this book, Mavericks proposed the famous Newton's three laws of mechanics and the law of universal gravitation, and used the calculus he invented to prove that Kepler's three laws can be deduced from the inverse square law of gravity.

  The publication of this book made Mavericks famous all over the world. It not only solved the world's problems at that time, but also invented calculus, one of the most powerful tools in the history of mathematics.

  According to Halley's words, he became "the person closest to God in the world", and his life was complete except for being single.

   At this time, Hooker wrote another letter to Mavericks, asking Mavericks to revise "Principles" and admit that he is the discoverer of the inverse square law.

  This request completely angered the Mavericks. He wrote back to Hooke, saying that this law was not proposed by Hooke at all, but a well-known fact.

  In a fit of rage at the same time, Mavericks directly deleted all the texts related to Hooke in "Principles", hoping that Hooke would not exist in this piece of ancient history.

   In addition, when it comes to Mavericks and Hooker, we have to talk about another really little-known thing.

  Before we mentioned the allusion that Tao Gong did not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, but this letter involves another sentence that ruins childhood.

  Many people know that Mavericks once said:

  “If I can see further, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants.”

  Many people think this sentence is the Mavericks' inspirational self-effacing, but in fact it is satirizing Hooker.

   You know, Hooker himself is not tall and has a hunchback.

   Therefore, Mavericks' reply letter was not meant to say inspirational words at all. The subtext in it was, “My achievements have nothing to do with you, the hunchbacked dwarf, Hook!”

Of course.

The context of this sentence is a reply letter from Mavericks when he talked about the color of the sheet metal, which was also fired by Henry Oldenburg at the time-yes, it was the one above who made adjustments when the two sides met for the first time old man.

  So the details of this sentence are not so dramatic, at least it has nothing to do with gravity, but it is indeed a sarcastic statement.

   Then after Hooke's death, Maverick was elected as the new President of the Royal Society. In the first year of taking office, Hooke's laboratory and library were disbanded on the spot, and the experimental equipment left by Hooke was either scattered or destroyed.

  Even when the site of the Royal Society was relocated in 1710, the only portrait of Hooke was "accidentally lost" during the relocation, and no one knows Hooke's true appearance.

  So let's not say that in a sense, the debate between Mavericks and Hooker is a life-and-death battle between the schoolboys from the beginning to the end.

  But what surprised Xu Yun was that .

   Leaving aside how Hook appeared here, let's just say that the argument between Mavericks and Hook should have happened thirteen years later. Why do these two people look like they're holding guns when they meet now?

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   Hooker is so obvious to give away points.

   It's okay if only one person guessed it right, but there are still people who say that she is Newton's wife, co-author of what I wrote earlier =. =

   As for the second guess, no one guessed it right. I also think it is too difficult, because the hints I gave are very, very inconspicuous.

  (end of this chapter)

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