Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1759 The Queen of Hell (Thirty)

  Isaac Newton is not a handsome man.

The surroundings of his face are getting darker with age. The sharp nose and deep eyes reveal his serious personality. After the middle-aged blessing, he looks slightly softer, and the traces of power and pampering can also be seen. His face showed it.

  After being knighted, he showed a promising aristocratic image. He wore a wig, black robe, and the house was elegantly decorated. When he was still at Trinity College, Cambridge, he developed a keen interest in crimson. Crimson is ubiquitous in furniture and daily necessities. This fascination may have occurred during his optical experiments around 1670.

Around the middle of the 1660s, Newton was able to use a prism to show that light is a mixture of multiple colors. In 1666, he wrote in his paper "About Color": After the two prisms, there will be no light of colors other than red, and the pure blue light will not have light of colors other than blue after passing through the second prism.

At that time, the prevailing view was that the nature of light would change or modify after passing through a "dark" medium, but Newton's light refraction experiment showed the opposite result, but this simple experiment did not satisfy him. He needed a better one. A clear and quantifiable method to prove his theory.

  Since the end of 1669, Newton went to London many times to buy experimental equipment and materials. Because of the great plague of 1665 and the ensuing fire, London was undergoing reconstruction at the time. Many foreigners entered the city. The public security was not good or bad. Even if the city government used severe penalties, stealing would be Hanging thief and petty theft are inevitable, and there are still people who get unclear items on the old goods market and sell them.

Since the 17th century, Charles Cross has been a famous cultural distribution center in Britain. It is not only a gathering place for old books, but also many antique shops, experimental equipment shops, etc. Isaac Newton has a contact on this street His name is Cooper, and he can buy some "prohibited" books from him, such as the diaries of celebrities rescued from the fire that have not been burned out, or knowledge of alchemy. He and Robert of Oxford Boyle might have met this on the old book stand.

  Robert Boyle is the fourteenth child of the first Earl of Cork and the youngest. He showed excellent language talent at a very young age, and was able to speak fluent French and Latin at the age of 8.

A wealthy child like him can travel to Europe with his elder brother and family teacher at the age of 11, while a family like Newton simply cannot raise enough travel expenses for the "Grand Tour". He spent the first half of his life in only two places. Grantham and Trinity College, Cambridge, but the breadth of their knowledge did not affect the two at first sight. They both have a common hobby-alchemy. Boyle began to study in 1646, 20 years before Newton. , It can be said that Boyle is the enlightenment teacher in the field of Newton's alchemy, and it is also Boyle who brought Newton out of his closed social circle.

Newton’s true character is actually not very likable. He was not well-known when he was young, and he was published in journals when he discovered a little bit. However, to publish papers at that time, he needed to be a member of the Royal Society. It was a place where "arbitrators" got together. Only silence can join, and Newton happens to be a critical person. His personal beliefs are incompatible with the rules and regulations of the university. Newton was both a graduate school and a lecturer at Lucas College. After the first class in January 1670, a student in his classroom was also a student for the next 17 years. No, he spoke to the wall during class, and his voice reverberated in the empty classroom. He had few friends except his roommate Wilkin.

Boyle is extroverted and has good social relations. He is a scholar for the pursuit of learning. He is happy to share his research and discoveries, but only with friends. This is not because he strictly guards secrets, but because he has witchcraft accusations. The risk of the alchemist is easy to associate with the wizard who chants the spell, and the reputation of the alchemist is worse, and they are often regarded as liars and infidels. When Newton was young, he worked in Grantham’s pharmacy. He learned chemistry and pharmaceutical technology from Mr. Clark. It was okay to refine a kind of balsam called Lacoteles in his bedroom, which could be used outside. It can also be taken orally and is made from turpentine oil, rose juice, beeswax, olive oil, white wine and rosewood incense. Boyle will teach Newton some more advanced experimental chemistry, as well as astrology. Observation Newton and Halley caused a lot of trouble due to the problem of the reflecting telescope.

All in all, Boyle led Newton into the Hartleyb circle. Hartleyb was the central figure in the 17th century British alchemy activities. But the most famous figure in this circle was Boyle. Hartleyb was more like a Contact person, there are many members of the Royal Society in this circle, and Boyle is a voluntary member.

At that time, the heyday of the Rosicrucian Society has passed. In Germany and France, both supporters and opponents have all turned to underground activities. Hartrib came from Prussia, and perhaps the Rosicrucian ideology has influenced it. He, but the "Hatrib Circle" is not the same as the organization that focuses on religion. The goal of this organization is to rationalize alchemy. They don’t focus on religious activities, nor do they plan to create omnipotent stones to create unlimited wealth and control the world. It is mainly to build a bridge between personal alchemy experiments in the Middle Ages and empirical chemistry. The focus is experiment.

  When Newton was still a "cute new", he would follow another member of the organization, Moore, to receive training at the home of Moore’s student and close friend Viscount Conway, and other fringe people who were interested in studying alchemy.

Members in the circle are usually connected by aliases, such as "Mr. Little", "Mr. Jiasheng", "Mr. F", etc. During that time, Newton could say that he lived a double life, and it was also the experience of this time that gave Newton The name of the pioneer of modern science and the last alchemist.

  Thomas Brattle spent most of the 80s in the UK, and worked with Robert Boyle, and had contact with Galileo’s works during Boyle’s study tour.

  In the early autumn of 1682, another comet appeared in the sky. It was brighter than the one that appeared in 1680. The telescopes of astronomers all over Europe were aimed at it.

  Newton was also wrapped in a blanket and sat in the courtyard of Trinity College in Cambridge to observe every day. In less than two years, he drew the trajectory of a celestial body three times.

  The comet is traveling in the opposite direction. Although it was unwilling to be seen by observers, the comet has indeed flown away.

  However, the scholars did not stop. Hooker asked what motion the comet did, a straight line or a curve? If it is a curve, what shape is it, a circle or an ellipse?

  Perhaps this is why Blatter made accurate measurements of a comet that passed through New England more than ten years before the Salem trial.

  It’s a comet, it won’t hit the ground like a meteor. Humans don’t have to worry about being extinct like dinosaurs.

  The comet doesn’t matter to most people, except for astronomers, maybe young lovers will point to the star and say, "My dear, make a wish before the meteor disappears."

  Blattle took a cautious attitude to observe carefully, so that he missed the commotion caused by Goodwin's children.

In October 1671, James Bailey, who had just graduated from Harvard, preached in Salem for the first time. He was 22 years old and had just married a few weeks ago. Because of his low qualifications, rude behavior, and carelessness, the community was not all members. I like him.

  The faithful originally planned to build a parsonage for him, but this fell through. The priest built a house by himself. In that house, the priest and his wife lost their two daughters.

He thought he could stay in Salem for a long time, but he didn’t. When he came, he not only brought his wife and children, but also brought his wife’s 12-year-old sister. She was married to the Putnam family at the age of 17. Old Ann Putnam.

In 1689, a bizarre thing happened at the Goodwin house in Boston. Four well-behaved children suddenly learned to bark, meow, or flutter like a goose, avoiding invisible sticks and sharp points. Called that he was imprisoned or cut by a knife, and even tried to strangle himself.

Later, Martha accused a washerwoman of being a thief. The old woman furiously accused Martha Goodwin of telling lies. The girl immediately began to convulse. For a week, her three younger siblings kept vomiting and screaming, during the hearing. The old washerwoman was asked to recite the "Lord's Prayer", but the Irish woman only speaks Gaelic. The marshal found a puppet in her room again, and the Catholic Irish wizard was hanged.

  She said before dying, "The children's spasms will not end with my death."

She was right. They began to twitch more violently. That summer Cotton Mather took the thirteen-year-old Martha to help her recover, but when Mather’s family prayed, she attacked everyone who prayed, and The book hit Cotton's head.

Once there was a Plymouth woman who claimed that her neighbor appeared in front of her in the form of a big ghost bear. A savvy judge asked her "What does the bear's tail look like?", the woman couldn't catch it, saying that the big bear was coming. , She didn't see clearly. The judge told her that "bears have no tails" because she had to choose between being whipped and a public apology because of fabricating facts. At that time, apart from torturing the Goodwin women, no one was executed on charges of witchcraft in the past 25 years.

It was also in 1689 that Reverend Rosen’s wife and daughter died. Almost every Salem Reverend’s wife died, but the method of death was different. Elizabeth Paris also began to convulse at the end of the summer of 1692. Her condition It's terrible, not the same as those radiant girls.

Although official publications are not allowed to be printed, underground prints are still spread quietly by word of mouth. In this book, "Talks About Our Current Witchcraft Related Discussions", there are two interlocutors, one is called s and the other is called b. They explained the persecution of witchcraft and people's dissatisfaction with the court through dialogue.

  B: Restricting justice alone can prevent the people from subverting the government.

  S: But at the same time, good people may be sacrificed to the devil.

B: No matter who is the culprit, a more serious problem is at stake. Supernatural knowledge is not accepted in the court of the world. Whether those girls are cursed, possessed, or both, they are all in collusion with the devil, if not so How can they provide weird predictions, report events before birth, or accuse people who have never met?

  S: Do you want to completely ignore the testimony of the tortured?

  B: If a person is upset and dissatisfied, how can he be a credible witness?

  S: Touch test and evil eye will never go wrong.

  B: What about baptisms, assemblies, and sacraments? Do you really believe that the accused are all wizards? The plaintiff was either lying or indulging in delusion.

  S: You really admire you when it comes to maintaining wizards.

This anonymous journal was published thanks to the two patrons pe and ja. If you only look at the initials, it happens to be phi*******lish and johnalden. The two defendants who disappeared in Massachusetts smoothly, but there may be other Abbreviations, such as pigegg, jonathanadorable, don’t mean anything.

  The wind direction has changed, and only those who understand understand what happened.

  Usually, these people have secret smiles on their faces. After they understand the meaning behind the secret words, they continue to do what they have done before, as if everything is business as usual and nothing has happened.

  (End of this chapter)