Finally it was Fan's turn to retreat.
He looked at Wang Shun who came down from the stage and saw that his eyes were dull and confused, and he couldn't help but feel curious.
"You stand in this position, yes, right here."
Under the guidance of officials from the Ministry of Industry, Fan Tui stood in front of the machine and put one eye in front of the eyepiece.
Then he opened his mouth wide.
How big is the universe?
It was empty, lonely, and crowded.
In the vast universe, the Ganges constellations are changing rapidly, and the stars and nebulae are intertwined, forming a magnificent picture.
And all of this, or everything observed by the astronomical telescope, was clearly displayed in front of Fan Tui.
Fan Tui watched while officials from the Ministry of Industry explained.
"Every bright spot you see is a star. Stars and planets together form star systems.
The Earth we live on is only an insignificant part of the solar system to which it belongs.
Look at the river dotted with stars, that is the Milky Way..."
Speaking of dry mouth, the Ministry of Engineering took a thermos cup from the side and took two sips.
Then he glanced at his watch and said to Fan Tui: "How's it going? The time is almost up. Is there anything else you want to see in the end?"
Fan Tui swallowed and thought of a goal.
"Just the moon."
"moon?"
The official from the Ministry of Industry was stunned for a moment, then sighed and began to correct the astronomical telescope.
He moved skillfully and it was obviously not his first time.
When everything was ready, Fan Tui saw the moon as he wished.
There is no Guanghan Palace, no Chang'e, no Wu Gang, just desolation.
Circles of craters have made the moon's surface rugged and bumpy, making it no longer beautiful to the naked eye.
In the end, Fan Tui left worried about gains and losses.
Wang Shun followed behind and asked: "Old Fan, since they are all balls, why don't the people on the other side of the balls fall?
Also, since there are so many star systems, are there people in those star systems?
…”
Wang Shun asked endlessly.
Fan Tuize felt empty and silently recited a poem.
"The sky and the earth are vastly different, and I feel that the universe is infinite; when joy and sorrow come, I realize that there are countless ups and downs."
Wang Shun rolled his eyes and said jokingly: "Old Fan, you're dragging me down again."
Fan Tui shook his head. This sentence comes from Wang Bo's "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng", lamenting the insignificance of human beings.
Suddenly, Fan Tui seemed to have caught something again, his brows sometimes frowned and sometimes relaxed.
He clapped his hands and said to Wang Shun: "I'm going to finish "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and I'm going to start a new manuscript.
Just write about Star Wars. "
When Wang Shun heard this, his curiosity was aroused, and he pulled Fan Tui to ask questions. The two gradually left the observatory.
On the other side, Zhu Zaiming and Xu Qi were in the stargazing room, looking at the crowd in the square in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows.
There was a white man with them.
Volta, Italian, physicist.
Recently, I arrived in the Ming Dynasty on a large sailing ship from North America. I was invited by Jin Yiwei to come to Jinling City to meet the Holy Spirit.
Volta, who invented the Voda pile in 1800, excitedly announced: Electric charge is like water flowing in a wire. It will flow from a place with high voltage to a place with low voltage, producing an electric current, that is, a potential difference.
To this end, he also wrote a paper "On Electricity Excited by Contact of Different Metal Materials" and wanted to send it to the Royal Society.
In the end, the paper was not successfully sent because the British Empire was now too busy to take care of itself.
The Royal Society, the London Stock Exchange, etc., were all temporarily canceled due to the war.
Many European scientists have been studying things for half their lives, and suddenly there is no place to submit papers.
Therefore, as early as when the Ming Dynasty envoy went to Washington, the Jin Yiwei who accompanied the ship began to fish for people.
Volta, as well as some other slightly famous physicists, chemists, mathematicians, etc., all received invitations from Jin Yiwei.
Most people were willing to come to the Ming Dynasty, and the Jin Yiwei was very welcoming, and even contacted the navy fleet to come to escort them.
Of course, there are also some patriotic scholars who refuse the invitation because they want to devote themselves to the cause of national construction.
Jin Yiwei immediately admired his noble character.
The grass on the grave should be two feet high now.
After entering the Ming Dynasty, Volta was immediately stunned by the civilized world of the Ming Dynasty.
Officials from the Ministry of Rites took him to visit the First Fleet anchored in Chongming and the Admiral Shen Yulong-class battleship under construction at Chongming Shipyard.
When Volta finally entered the Ministry of Industry, he saw various experimental devices and equipment at the Ministry of Industry Research Institute, and saw mountains of technical data.
Volta understood that everything he sought was here.
What Italian?
I am now a naturalized citizen of the Ming Dynasty and a second-class citizen of the Ming Dynasty!
Zhu Zaiming has promised that as long as Volta can make important contributions to science, his status will be upgraded to a first-class citizen of the Ming Dynasty and he will become a serious Ming Dynasty citizen.
It is not difficult to just add an Italian minority to the dozens of ethnic groups in the Ming Dynasty.
The next day, it was dawn.
Newsstands across Jinling City opened early.
People who had been waiting for a long time paid for the new issue of the newspaper.
When the people came to the window, they found that there was another series of newspapers in the newsstand, and they were a little expensive.
Everyone huddled together, pointing to the row of newspapers above and reading.
""The Study of Things and Knowledge", what is this newspaper about?"
"36 articles per volume, so expensive?"
"Which newspaper published it? Let's see if I don't cut off its head!"
"That's right, 36 cents is enough to go to the royal family and eat chicken to show off a set meal!"
The guys were very angry.
The best-selling "Da Ming Bao" only has 12 articles, covering everything from court affairs to fantasy novels.
This "Investigating Things to Know" is actually three times the price!
The newsstand owner took out all today's newspapers from the cartons and placed them on the stall one by one.
Seeing that everyone had opinions, he quickly calmed everyone down and said, "Everyone, please be quiet for now. This new "Gewu Zhi Zhi" newspaper is published by the Ming Dynasty Royal Association. Do you understand what I mean?"
This time, the people stopped arguing.
The Ming Dynasty Royal Association has the word "royal" in it, which means that it is presided over by His Majesty the Emperor.
Your Majesty, he must have a reason for setting this price.
Yes, that's right, that must be the case.
Everyone kept nodding to show their understanding.
The boss raised his eyebrows, thinking that His Majesty's name was more useful, and happily explained to everyone.
“The main audience of this series of newspapers is not ordinary people, but the major scholars in society.
I don’t mind if you want to buy it, but I don’t care if you can understand it..."
After the boss finished speaking, the people expressed their understanding.
"Understand, understand~"
"He's a scholar, and he has some connections with the people from the Ministry of Industry. We ordinary people don't understand what they do. Get me a copy!"
"Huh? You don't understand and you still buy it?"
"Why can't I buy it? I just buy it and take it home to support it. Can you control it?"
The common man snorted coldly, and after paying the money, he took away a copy of "Da Ming Bao" and "Investigating Things to Know".
He couldn't wait to open "Investigating Things to Know", and the first paper made him confused.
"Universal Gravity, Exploration and Perfection of Newton's Mechanical Theory" - Source: 1687 AD edition of "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy".
