Chapter 2056 Drink of Victory (6)

The Moonlight Society defines itself as an international group of natural scientists, unlike the "Royal Society for the Advancement of Natural Knowledge in London", or the Royal Society for short, it is the highest scientific academic institution in the "UK" and the oldest and uninterrupted in the history of the world. The Scientific Society.

  The French Academy was interrupted in 1793. Lavoisier also lost his last refuge and finally went to the guillotine. He was charged with having served as a tax packager to collect taxes from the "national."

  If academics are destroyed, I am afraid it will be difficult to recover after half a century.

  Although Lavoisier issued such a warning, it was still invalid, and Lavoisier was eventually sentenced to death. Legend has it that he made an agreement with the executioner before the execution. Lavoisier will blink his eyes if he still feels the beheaded. Lavoisier blinked a total of fifteen times, and then with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Te was also buried in a mass grave.

  There are many things between professors, and children who go to school will not know. The current "ace course" of the Paris Polytechnic Institute is Monge's descriptive geometry, not only because Monge went to Egypt with Napoleon, but also because it is a required course for engineering and mechanical technicians.

"Technology" majors such as glass and ceramics have been squeezed aside. If you put it another way, Lavoisier’s achievements in Paris have a lot to do with his experiment on conservation of mass. At that time, Western Europe had a great deal of scientific achievements in Russia. Not paying attention to it, Lomonosov’s "Law of Immortality" was not promoted. It was Lavoisier who proved the law of conservation of mass with sulfuric acid, lime and balance, and then there was a chemistry that used equal signs instead of arrows to express changes. formula.

There is another reason why Lavoisier is called the father of modern chemistry. Ancient alchemists believed that the world was composed of elements such as water, wind, fire, and earth, which meant that water was the basic element and was inseparable. Lavoisier and Laplace mixed the flammable gas hydrogen produced from zinc and hydrochloric acid with the flammable gas oxygen produced by heating mercury oxide in a flask, energized and ignited, the sealed flask was covered with water, and at the same time the container The volume of the gas is reduced by one-fifth, which proves that water is not an element, but can be decomposed and recombined.

  This broke the alchemy thinking of nearly a thousand years, but Priestley felt that this discovery belonged to him and the Moonlight Society. This is the famous "water dispute" in the history of chemistry.

  Priestley did not actually discover water, but he was eager to communicate with the French scientific community to make this discovery. Prior to this, Watt and he had used phlogiston theory to express their analysis of water, but the language in which they were writing was outdated. Lavoisier used many Greek roots in "The Fundamentals of Chemistry" to carry out analysis of each compound. Naming, such as oxygen, Lavoisier named it because oxygen can synthesize a variety of acids with many non-metallic elements, so it is named with the Greek word "acid gas", which is the element of acidification.

Phlogiston theory is the explanation of the combustion reaction in the previous three hundred years. They believe that fire is composed of countless small and lively particles. A large number of fire particles gather together to form an obvious flame. Boyle found out after the exercise. The gold technique became heavier. He believed that the invisible "phlogiston" was metalized and produced ashes when burned. As the ashes were more phlogistic, it became heavier.

  This is based on the fact that fire is an element, that is, ancient Greek philosophers believed that the world is composed of fire, wind, water, and earth. It was also from here that modern chemistry and ancient alchemy were divided.

  Farron is over 80. Of course, he cannot accept new knowledge as quickly as young people. Georgiana has “served” authority, so she knows exactly what he wants to do.

Young geniuses are easily manipulated by these "old guys." Thomas Young wanders in the upper class on his own. This kind of people with high EQ and IQ is very rare. Watt wore all his clothes when he first entered the upper class. It was arranged by Bolton. To put it in a less appropriate metaphor, Grindelwald controlled Clydens and Albus controlled Harry Potter in the same way, and even Severus gave Albus his research results.

If Severus didn’t give it, then he wasn’t just going to lose his position as a professor. He was a Death Eater before. According to Karkaroff’s way of confessing in court, he should have gone to Azkaban and Belladan. Inmate, Albus saved him, not only gave him the position of Dean of Slytherin, but also gave him resources to conduct his research.

  Fresnel had better pray that Farron would die before he got the results of his research, otherwise, even if he gets some convenience now, it’s hard to say what he will do in the future.

  In fact, Mrs. Lavoisier was very helpful to Lavoisier's research. Many of Lavoisier's experimental equipment were drawn and ordered by her.

  Women have always been in a foil position in this field. It was recognized in the 19th century that women are more suitable for botany and men are more suitable for chemistry, even for the Moonlight Society.

  Artificial pollination is a basic course in botany. Otherwise, you have to spend money to buy seeds every year. The taste of vanilla is originally from the seeds.

  Since it was decided that the dessert of the party was vanilla ice cream, Georgianna used the farmer's curse to propagate some vanilla pods. Anyway, it is not food and will change the fortune of the country. It is just a spice to improve the taste of ice cream.

  After she had harvested a large basket full of vanilla pods, she gave them to the kitchen and then returned to the farmhouse, when it was dark.

  Originally, she planned to go back to the room to rest, but found that the door next door was open with a slit, and an orange light was leaking from it.

  She hesitated and opened the door. The figure of the person sitting inside gave her a daze.

   "Have fun with Farron?" Bonaparte held Laplace's book without raising his head.

  "Can you help James Watt find his son?" Georgiana leaned on the door frame and said, "That kid is a trouble."

   "What kind of trouble?"

"The Tory Party believes that certain secrets should not be told to ordinary people, while Darwin believes that the people should not continue to be ignorant. James Watt Jr. agreed with this. He came to France during the Revolution and then to Switzerland. And Germany, almost joined the revolutionary army."

  Napoleon raised his head.

"He was a republican who was in favor of the Enlightenment. He was arrested in England. Later, he was forced to be a partner of the company by his father. He is still unmarried, except for a cat, a dog, and a Sicilian male servant. Almost living alone."

   "How did he get out?" Bonaparte asked.

   "He has a brother, Gregory Watt." Georgiana couldn't help holding her forehead. "He is another'trouble'."

   Bonaparte laughed, showing white teeth, "What kind of trouble?"

  Georgiana shook her head, "Have you heard of the'generation gap'?"

   "You can come in and explain to me."

   "Gregory hardly communicates with Old Watt, and he is also good friends with Tom Wedgwood."

   "He also has a problem with'that aspect'?" Bonaparte asked.

   "No, he just doesn't want to please his parents." Georgiana sighed, "Old Watt is willing to fulfill his every wish, as long as Gregory is free to open his heart to them."

   "Sounds like a spoiled young master."

  "Tom Wedgwood stayed at Coleridge's house during his stay in Paris. Do you know who Coleridge is?"

  He was so quiet that he waited for her to continue.

  "He is a fantasy-romantic poet, and he also has rheumatism. He needs opioids to ease his pain."

  He seems not interested in this topic anymore.

"Compared with physical pain, mental pain is more unbearable. We women are productive when we work and purchasing power when we consume. We are not treated as a person. We are not treated as human beings. As for me, The boys mentioned earlier, although they have no worries about food and clothing, and their parents did not beat or scold them, they are also facing similar problems."

   "What's the problem?" Bonaparte asked when she hadn't spoken for a long time.

  "Do you think they should have a problem?" Georgiana asked.

   Bonaparte did not speak.

"That's the problem. My peers think that rich young masters like them should have no troubles, but they have a lot of troubles, but they have no friends to talk to. I have a godson whose parents dote on Gray like the Watts. Gorry, but he is very lonely, and he even wants to tell my godmother." Georgiana said angrily. "The problem is that the little **** also bullied my college students. I wanted to beat him more than once."

Bonaparte smiled, "Why didn't you teach him?"

   "Someone taught him a lesson." Georgiana said with her hips akimbo, "The adults should not intervene in the problems between children."

   "Then you think I should intervene to find little James Watt?" Bonaparte asked.

  "Are you an adult?" she asked.

  He was lucky for a long time, and finally chose to pick up Laplace's book and read it.

  "In the future, you have time to pay less attention to those actresses and spend more time with the French academicians." She disgusted and said, "What kind of friends do you make."

  He closed the book with a bang, then stood up aggressively.

  Georgiana immediately turned around and ran.

  Of course, she did not run out of the farmhouse. After all, it was dark outside and not suitable for hide-and-seek.

  (End of this chapter)