Into Unscientific

crunch——

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

After a while.

call--

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, a little short and stooped, wearing a powdered wig made of horse hair, and wearing 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 the spinning jenny Before it appeared, 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.

Judging from 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 his group, 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 and will not be repeated.

But by Lisa's side, Xiao Niu has quietly picked up his holy book, intending to convince others with reasoning if something goes wrong.

Gollum—

William looked at the man who was getting closer, his Adam's apple rolled a few times, and before the other party came, his tone remained respectful:

"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 am 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 University, Trinity College?"

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

However, Mavericks at this time is 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:

"That's right."

"Is that a student of Isaac Barrow?"

"That's right."

Hearing this sentence, the visitor suddenly snorted coldly.

"May I have 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, Professor of Geometry at Greyham College. "

Hearing these words, before Xiao Niu and William's family had time to 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 bit about Mavericks' experience should know it.

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

When you mention Newton, you must mention this man.

he is robert

Hook!

Hooker 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, 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 mechanics, Hooke proposed Hooke's law, which is the basic law of elasticity and material mechanics, and the law is widely used.

In the American drama "Prison Break", Mi Shuai used an eggbeater 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 cells (another Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria), and his great book "Micrography" became famous 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 of its 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 with only 3 centimeters seven years before Mavericks, which is better than other telescopes with a length of 15 meters.

He even had a smaller design that could fit in a pocket watch, but further research was delayed only by the spread of the Black Death and the reconstruction of the Great Fire of London.

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

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

But since then, Mavericks has been "living in seclusion" 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 is a gravitational force between any two objects, and this gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the objects, which is the so-called inverse square law.

To explain it in a layman's terms, Hook generously pointed out the Maverick's mistake, and didn't hide and watch him take a detour.

But it is also very arrogant to say that this kind of calculation requires a new type of tool, so Niuzi, you know where you are wrong and you can’t calculate it, just a little bit~

This tool is actually calculus, which is the calculus that Mavericks calls himself, and it was close to perfection at that time.

But what a thief Maverick is, 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 Harley'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 was 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, I have to talk about another really little-known thing.

Earlier 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 am standing 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, Hook himself is not tall, and he has a hunchback.

Therefore, the 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. At that time, Henry Oldenburg made a wave of fire-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 his tenure, Hooke's laboratory and library were disbanded on the spot, and the experimental equipment left by Hooke was 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 face so far.

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

But what surprised Xu Yun was.

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 seem to be holding guns and sticks when they meet now?