Chapter 19 Invincible Papers from the Qing Dynasty
Chapter 19 Invincible Papers from the Qing Dynasty
"Okay, let's go back and wait for the good news," Ding Haoliang said to Li Yu after walking out of the post office. "Shipping has recently resumed, and it won't take long to reach London."
Even so, shipping is really slow, it would be nice if I could send an email!
During this period, Li Yu was still spending his days as a student assistant. Although Mr. Yi Kuang, the Prince of Qing, did not necessarily learn any advanced knowledge, he still had some scientific knowledge.
Yikuang himself thought that he was getting better and better, and every day he would force Ronglu to teach him two lessons, one on planetary theory and the other on the principle of tides. Even the Queen Mother often praised him, which really impressed Yikuang.
Kuan was overjoyed and rewarded Li Yu with 100 taels of silver, which was regarded as the cost of teaching.
Li Yu works as a teacher at night and is not idle during the day. In addition to exercising, he goes to Tongwen Museum to study foreign languages by himself.
His English is excellent, and because he watched anime, he also learned Japanese in his spare time. He was able to communicate in simple daily situations. Later, he went to the University of Munich in Germany as an exchange student for half a year, and he could also speak German.
Seven, seven, eight, eight.
Both Japanese and German have basic language aids: with the bonus of Chinese mother tongue, Japanese will actually be much easier to learn; and English and German are both Germanic languages, so learning is not that difficult.
Anyway, it’s not like learning a super difficult language like Arabic from scratch, that would really cost you your life.
However, his Japanese and German are limited to daily communication, which is far behind, let alone writing.
It just so happened that the Tongwen Library had ready-made textbooks. The textbooks written a hundred years ago were very hard-core. I couldn't play TikTok or play football during the day, so I had to learn foreign languages.
I have to say, the efficiency of studying like this is really high! You don’t have to worry about anything else!
At this time, thousands of miles away in London, England.
A letter from across the ocean was sent to the Royal Society of England.
The recipient of the letter was Joelson, an editor of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Recently, he has received hundreds of emails from all over the world.
When he got the letter and saw the postmark, he was shocked: "What? The Qing Dynasty?"
Joelson was a little helpless and submitted articles everywhere!
He put the envelope on the table and was not ready to open it immediately. Recently, he had read many Indian and Malay manuscripts, which were completely pediatric level!
——Some are proving the Pythagorean theorem, some are discussing the law of buoyancy; and that’s not all, some are even writing about how to make gold from lime and mineral powder!
The Royal Society is directly regarded as a primary school journal + a science fiction essay competition site!
All this is nothing!
Joelson felt that the idea he came up with was really weak. He didn't get any good papers, but it gave him a lot more work.
This issue of "Journal of Natural Science" requires five manuscripts, and currently only one has been selected for publication. It is from Tokyo Imperial University and is about how to improve the efficiency of ship engines.
There were still four vacancies left, so Joelson had no choice but to read today's letters again. The first few letters were really no surprise. It only took him more than half an hour to read the six letters, leaving only the rare one.
Letters sent from the Qing Dynasty.
This was the first time he received a letter from the Qing Dynasty. He really didn't want to read it at first, but seeing that the signature of the letter was American, he reluctantly opened it.
The first page is a letter of introduction from Ding Weiliang. Ding Weiliang knows the gap between China and foreign countries better than the ignorant senior officials of the Qing Dynasty, so he introduced it very humbly from the beginning:
"Dear reviewer, I am Ding Yuliang, the former chief teacher of the Guotongwen School of the Qing Dynasty. You must have never heard of this school, and naturally you have not heard of me. But I would like to sincerely introduce to you a unique genius whose papers are astonishing
You are extremely talented and will definitely not bring shame to your magazine!"
Joelson had some expectations after seeing this. If he boasted so much, he wouldn't come back to teach him elementary physics.
The manuscript totaled more than 20 pages and was quite thick. Joelson took out the introduction letter on the first page and immediately saw the beautiful English fonts.
"Hey! It turns out that there were people in the Qing Dynasty who could write English calligraphy."
First I added a roll of pasta.
When it came to the main text, Joelson couldn't sit still as he read it, and his right hand holding the pen began to tremble uncontrollably.
"Oh my god!"
Joelson excitedly exclaimed, "It's so cutting-edge. This is actually a paper from the Qing Dynasty in the far east!"
Joelsen reviews manuscripts all year round and is very sensitive to scientific topics. Moreover, the most popular subject in Europe right now is radiography.
This paper completely breaks away from the shackles of conventional articles. It quickly goes from the explanation of physical properties to the essential explanation, and even provides perfect proofs and experimental methods.
In short, it’s too high-end and too cutting-edge!
He must submit this kind of paper to the president for review!
Sir William Huggins, then president of the Royal Society, was studying cigars in his office with former president Lord Kelvin.
"How's it going? Is this box of cigars from Cuba ten times stronger than the ones you usually smoke?" Lord Kelvin said proudly.
Huggins put it under his nose and smelled it: "It's good, but your statement is wrong. I think it's fifty times better."
The two immediately laughed together.
"Bang bang bang!"
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in," Huggins said.
Joelson pushed open the door and walked in, and immediately said excitedly: "President, there is an incredible paper. You must read it for yourself."
Huggins put down his cigar: "What paper makes you so fussy?"
Joelson saw Lord Kelvin standing inside, he was the top scientist today.
"Mr. Lord, I'm sorry to disturb you, I..."
Lord Kelvin said: "It doesn't matter, you just say it."
Joelson put the paper on Huggins' desk, "President, this is a paper sent from the Qing Dynasty. It deduce some physical properties of X-rays in detail."
"What's the point? Haven't we read enough articles like this?" President Huggins said nonchalantly.
"No, no, no!" Joelson continued, "If you scroll back, the rest of this paper essentially explains the properties of X-rays and predicts that they are electromagnetic waves."
Lord Kelvin, who was standing next to him, interjected: "How is that possible! Our universities such as Cambridge and Oxford are still debating this issue. Why does he say that?"
Joelson said to Lord Kelvin: "I couldn't believe it at first, but later in this article, Maxwell and Faraday's equations were used to conduct a very rigorous derivation, and the frequency range of the rays was calculated, and a verification method was even given, which can be carried out using crystals.
Diffraction experiment.”
As soon as the words "diffraction experiment" and "crystal" came out, the expressions of Lord Kelvin and President Huggins immediately became solemn.
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