Chapter 2056 Drink of Victory (6)

The Moonlight Society defines itself as an international group of naturalists, unlike the "Royal Society for the Advancement of Natural Knowledge in London", referred to as the Royal Society, which is the highest scientific academic institution in the United Kingdom and the oldest uninterrupted in the history of the world.

scientific society.

The French Academy was discontinued in 1793, and Lavoisier lost his last refuge and eventually went to the guillotine. His crime was that he had served as a tax collector to "tax the nation."

If scholarship is destroyed, it may not be possible to recover even half a century later.

Although Lavoisier issued such a warning, it was still ineffective, and Lavoisier was eventually sentenced to death. Legend has it that he made an agreement with the executioner before his execution. If the person who beheaded the person still had feelings, Lavoisier would blink his eyes.

, Lavoisier blinked fifteen times in total, and then was buried in a mass grave like Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

There are a lot of things that happen between professors that children going to school will not know about. At present, the "ace course" of the Paris Polytechnic is Monge's drawing geometry. This is not only because Monge went to Egypt with Napoleon, but also because

It is a required course for engineering and mechanical technicians.

"Craft" majors such as glass and ceramics have been pushed aside. If we put it another way, Lavoisier's great achievements in Paris have a lot to do with his experiments on the law of conservation of mass. At that time, Western Europe was very interested in Russian scientific achievements.

If you don’t pay attention, Lomonosov’s “Law of Immortality of Matter” was not popularized. It was Lavoisier who proved the law of conservation of mass with sulfuric acid, lime and balances, and then there was 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 is composed of water, wind, fire, earth and other elements. In other words, water is the basic element and is indivisible. 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 and ignited it with electricity. The sealed flask was covered with water. At the same time, the volume of the gas in the container

One fifth is missing, proving that water is not an element but can be decomposed and recombined.

This broke nearly a thousand years of alchemical thinking, but Priestley felt that this discovery belonged to himself and the Moonlight Society. This became the famous "water controversy" in the history of chemistry.

Priestley did not actually discover water, but his desire to communicate with the French scientific community led to this discovery. Before that, Watt and he had expressed their analysis of water using the phlogiston theory, but they wrote

The language at that time was outdated. Lavoisier used many Greek roots in "Fundamentals of Chemistry" to name each compound, such as oxygen. Lavoisier named it because oxygen can be synthesized with many non-metallic elements.

It is acid, so it is named after the Greek word "sour gas", which is the element of acidification.

The phlogiston theory was the explanation for combustion reactions in the previous three hundred years. They believed that fire was composed of countless small and active particles. A large number of fire particles gathered together to form an obvious flame. Boyle discovered this after alchemy surgery.

Metallurgy has become heavier. He believes that the invisible "phlogiston" combines with metal and produces ashes when burning. Because the ashes have more phlogiston, they become heavier.

This is based on the fact that fire is an element, which is what ancient Greek philosophers believed that the world is composed of fire, wind, water, and earth. This is also where the separation between modern chemistry and ancient alchemy began.

Farron is over 80, and of course he cannot accept new knowledge as quickly as young people. Georgiana has "served" authority, so she knows what he wants to do.

Young geniuses are easily manipulated by these "old guys". Thomas Young traveled in the upper class on his own. People with such high EQ and IQ are very rare. Watt's dress when he first entered the upper class was...

It was arranged by Bolton. To use a less appropriate metaphor, Grindelwald controlled Credence, Albus controlled Harry Potter, and even Severus used his research results to

Gave it to Albus.

If Severus didn't give it, then he would not only lose his position as professor, but he was a Death Eater in the past. According to the way Karkaroff confessed in court, he should have gone to Azkaban and Bella.

Prisoner, it was Albus who saved him and not only gave him the position of Head of Slytherin, but also gave him the resources to conduct his research.

Fresnel had better pray that Farron dies before he has any research results, otherwise even if he gets some convenience now, it's hard to say what will happen in the future.

In fact, Madame Lavoisier was of great help to Lavoisier's research. She drew and ordered many of Lavoisier's experimental equipment.

Women have always been in a supporting position in this field. In the 19th century, it was generally accepted that women were more suitable for botany and men were more suitable for chemistry, even in the Moonlight Society.

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

Since it was decided that the party's dessert would be vanilla ice cream, Georgiana used the Farmer's Growth Charm to propagate some vanilla pods. Anyway, it was not a food that would change the fate of the country. It was just a spice that improved the taste of the ice cream.

After she harvested a large basket full of vanilla pods, she handed them to the kitchen and returned to the farmhouse. It was already dark.

She originally planned to go back to her room to rest, but she found that the door next door was open a crack and orange light came from inside.

She hesitated for a moment and opened the door. The figure of the person sitting inside made her feel dazed for a moment.

"Did you have fun with Faron?" Bonaparte asked without raising his head while holding Laplace's book.

"Can you help James Watt find his son?" Georgiana said, leaning against the door frame. "That boy is trouble."

"What kind of trouble?"

"The Tories believed that certain secrets should not be told to ordinary people, while Darwin believed that the people should not be allowed to remain ignorant. James Watt Jr. agreed with this. During the Revolution, he came to France and later to Switzerland.

and Germany, almost joining the revolutionary army."

Napoleon raised his head.

"He is a republican who supports Enlightenment ideas. He was once arrested in England. Later, he was forced to be a partner in the company by his father. He is still unmarried. In addition to a cat, a dog and a Sicilian footman,

Almost living alone.”

"How did he escape?" asked Bonaparte.

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

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

Georgiana shook her head, "Have you ever 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 problems with 'that'?" 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 was?"

He waited quietly for her to continue.

"He is a fantasy romantic poet. He also has rheumatism and needs opiates to relieve his pain."

He seemed to have lost interest in the topic.

"Compared with physical pain, mental pain is more unbearable. When we women work, we are productive, and when we consume, we are purchasing power. But we are not treated as a human being. We are not managed as human beings. As for me,

The boys I just mentioned, although they have enough food and clothing and their parents do not beat or scold them, they are also facing similar problems."

"What's the problem?" Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, Bonaparte asked.

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

Bonaparte said nothing.

"That's the problem. People of the same age think that rich young masters like them should have no worries, but they have a lot of worries and no friends to talk to. I have a godson, and his parents dote on Gray just like the Watts."

Gorey, but he is very lonely and even wants to tell his godmother to me." Georgiana said angrily, "The problem is that the little bastard also bullied the students of my college. I wanted to beat him more than once."

Bonaparte smiled and said, "Why didn't you teach him a lesson?"

"Someone taught him a lesson." Georgiana said with her hands on her hips, "Adults should not interfere in the problems between children."

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

"Are you an adult?" she asked.

After trying his luck for a long time, he finally chose to pick up Laplace's book and read it.

"When you have time in the future, you should pay less attention to those actresses and spend more time with the French academicians." She said with disdain, "What kind of friends have you made?"

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

Georgiana immediately turned around and ran away.

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