The sound of the carriage stopping quickly attracted the attention of everyone under the shade of the trees, and even William's expression gradually began to become serious.
After a while.
call--
With the sound of a door curtain being raised, a figure slowly stepped down from the carriage.
The visitor was a man in his early thirties, somewhat short and hunched over. He wore a powdered wig made of horse hair and a gray robe with a bottom.
It is worth noting that the fabric of the robe turned out to be 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 after the spinning machine of Jenny
Before it appeared, silk was still a ceiling-level luxury item.
If tea at this period was at the level of Rolls-Royce Phantom, silk was almost at 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 walking towards them all, William frowned slightly and carefully protected Alula and Lilani behind him, while Mrs. William subconsciously blocked Andrea.
As for Lisa, she was left aside - in this era, assuming the same situation, adult women are actually safer than children.
The specific topic is too sensitive and will not be discussed in detail.
But next to Lisa, Mavericks had quietly picked up his holy book, intending to persuade others if something went wrong.
Gulu——
William looked at the man getting closer and closer, his Adam's apple rolled a few times, and before the other man revealed his intention, his tone still maintained a certain degree of respect:
"Sir, what can I do for you?"
The visitor raised his eyelids and glanced at him, with a smile on his lips. He stretched out his hand and pressed it down to signal him not to be nervous:
"Please relax, sir, I'm probably not the kind of person you think."
Then he walked up to Mavericks, stared at the Cambridge University uniform he was wearing, and focused on the school badge of Trinity College for a few seconds:
"Cambridge University, Trinity College?"
I don't know if it was because of his high position, but the visitor's tone had a hint of questioning, which made Mavericks inexplicably unhappy.
However, at this time, Mavericks was still just a youthful version of the irritable old man in the future. His lack of status and identity made him not confident enough, so he just replied dryly:
"That's right."
"Is that Isaac Barrow's student?"
"That's right."
Upon hearing this, the visitor suddenly snorted coldly.
"May I have your name?"
A hint of gloom flashed in Maverick's eyes, and after a few seconds he said:
"Isaac Newton."
The visitor narrowed his eyes slightly, seeming to notice Mavericks' displeasure:
"Isaac Newton? What a name.
Let me introduce myself, Robert Hooke, professor of geometry at Graysham College."
Hearing these words, before Mavericks and William's family had time to react, Xu Yun's heart shrank heavily and he almost broke the bread in the leaf bag!
It's him?!
Anyone who knows a little bit about Mavericks’ experience should know this.
In Maverick's 85-year-old life, there was one person who was both his teacher and his enemy, and was inseparable from him.
When Newton is mentioned, this person must be mentioned.
He is Robert....
Hook!
Hooker was born in July 1635, seven and a half years older than Mavericks. He had excellent grades since childhood, and was admitted to the prestigious Oxford University when he grew up.
However, due to some reasons, Hooke did not graduate with a degree, but he was lucky enough to become Boyle's research assistant.
Due to his outstanding scientific insights, in 1662, this extraordinary young scientist was recommended to serve as the director-general of the Royal Society Laboratory, and soon became an academician of the Royal Society.
And being able to fall in love and fight with Mavericks for decades later, Hook's ability is naturally beyond words.
In mechanics, Hooke proposed Hooke's law, which is the basic law of elastic mechanics and material mechanics. The law is widely used.
In the American TV series "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 pioneered the wave theory and was as famous as Huygens, the head of the Gallic Academy of Sciences.
At the same time, Hooke is also a DIY expert. With his magical hands, he has expanded human vision in both the extremely large and extremely small worlds:
He improved the telescope, observed the Great Red Spot of Jupiter and the lunar craters for the first time, improved the microscope, discovered and named cells (another Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria), and his masterpiece "Microscopy" was very popular in Luoyang.
However, what is very dramatic is that just when Hooker was in the limelight for a while, the Mavericks came.
In 1668, the young Newton placed 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 Hooke's two areas of expertise at the Society:
Optical and instrument design.
When this small and exquisite model appeared, with performance exceeding that of previous refracting telescopes, Hooke felt that his status was challenged, so he did not join the camp that praised reflecting telescopes, but loudly claimed that he was the one who made practical reflecting telescopes.
Prioritize people.
Hooke emphasized at the meeting that he had built a reflecting telescope of only 3 centimeters seven years before Maverick, which was more powerful than other telescopes up to 15 meters long.
He even had a smaller design that could be carried in a pocket watch, but further research was delayed by the spread of the Black Death and the reconstruction work of the Great Fire of London.
The controversy caused great harm to Mavericks, who even threatened to quit the Royal Society because it evoked the experience of being bullied as a boy.
Finally, through the mediation of Henry Oldenburg, secretary of the Royal Society, the two parties finally reached a "reconciliation."
But since then, Mavericks has begun to "retreat" in Cambridge and no longer publishes his academic results to the outside world.
But the feud 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 that this gravitational force was inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the objects. This is the so-called inverse square law.
To explain it in layman's terms, Hook pointed out Mavericks' mistakes generously, without hiding it and watching him take detours.
But he also said very arrogantly that this kind of calculation requires a new type of tool, so Niuzi, you know where you are wrong but you can't figure it out, just a little bit~
This tool was actually calculus, which Mavericks called his calculus, and it was already close to perfection at that time.
But Maverick is such a thief. He just didn't tell Hook about it, and secretly worked out the formula of universal gravitation on his own.
In 1687, with the funding of the British astronomer Halley, Mavericks published one of the greatest works in the history of human science, "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", which later generations referred to as "Principia".
In this book, Maverick 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 derived from the inverse square law of gravity.
The publication of this book made Mavericks famous all over the world. He 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 has become "the person closest to God in the world" and his life is complete except for being single.
At this time, Hooker wrote another letter to Mavericks, asking Mavericks to revise "Principia" and admit that he was the discoverer of the inverse square law.
This request completely angered Mavericks, and he wrote back to Hooke, saying that this law was not proposed by Hooke at all, but was a fact known to everyone.
At the same time, out of anger, Mavericks directly deleted all the words related to Hooke in "Principles", hoping that Hooke would not exist in this piece of ancient history.
In addition, when talking about Mavericks and Hooker, we have to talk about another little-known thing.
Previously we mentioned the allusion about Tao Gong not bending down for five measures of rice, but this letter involves another sentence that ruined childhood.
Many people know that Mavericks said something:
"If I can see further, it's because I stand on the shoulders of giants."
Many people think this sentence is Mavericks' inspirational self-effacement, but in fact it is a satire on Hooker.
You know, Hooker himself was not tall and had a hunchback.
Therefore, this reply from Mavericks is not intended to be inspirational at all. The subtext is, "My achievements have nothing to do with you, a hunchbacked dwarf like Hook!"
Of course.
The context of this sentence is a reply from Mavericks when he was talking about the color of the sheet. At that time, Henry Oldenberg was angry with him - yes, it was the one above who made adjustments when the two parties first met.
old man.
Therefore, the details of this sentence are not that dramatic, at least it has nothing to do with gravity, but it is indeed a sarcastic sentence.
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 dispersed or destroyed.
Even when the Royal Society moved its site in 1710, Hooke's only portrait was 'accidentally lost' during the move, and no one knows Hooke's true appearance to this day.
Therefore, in a sense, the dispute between Mavericks and Hooker was a life-and-death battle between the two schools from beginning to end.
But what makes Xu Yun strange is...
Not to mention how Hooker appeared here, the argument between Mavericks and Hooker should have happened thirteen years later. Why do these two people seem to be holding guns and sticks when they meet now?
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