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Chapter 1037: All at a bargain price

"This is my student's student, Mr. Evangelista Torricelli. He heard that I was going to the East to continue my research and asked to accompany me. He is smart and hardworking..."

"Cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Seeing that his old friend was very popular with the emperor, Galileo finally felt relieved and pulled over a young man with brown hair and black eyes to continue introducing him. But before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a rapid cough.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, have we been blown away by the sea breeze? Come on, prepare the carriage!"

The emperor suddenly started coughing violently, which not only surprised the three guests, but also frightened the two people, Pingtou Ge and Wang Chengen, who were on guard nearby. One of them rushed forward to protect the emperor's body, while the other screamed at the top of his lungs, causing chaos on the dock.

"Shut up... cough cough cough... let go! Be quiet, can't you see I'm receiving guests? This is so outrageous... cough cough cough..." At this time, Hong Tao finally calmed down his breathing, but his coughing had not completely stopped. He could only maintain the situation while coughing, and his face turned red.

The reason for the cough was not because of illness or the sea breeze, but because he accidentally choked on his saliva in shock. The person who shocked the emperor was the young man Galileo was introducing.

Those who have attended high school in the future should know what unit is used to measure atmospheric pressure. It's okay if you haven't attended high school. Have you ever driven a car? When the tire is inflated, the pressure is also indicated, usually in Pa. This unit is called Pascal, named after a scientist.

But many people may not know that bar and Torr coexist with Pa. Torr is the abbreviation of the young man's full name, as well as the principle of Torricelli's theorem and mercury barometer.

But it sounds like Torricelli is not as capable as Galileo, and is at most on par with Santorio. Why is Hong Tao so excited?

It's not that Hong Tao doesn't understand the market, but he is too cunning and too practical. No matter how capable Galileo and Santorio are, they are both over 70 years old and have passed the golden age for research.

But Torricelli looks like he is only in his twenties, far from being productive. It's like putting two nearly scrapped Rolls-Royces and a 90% new Passat together. In terms of its ability as a means of transportation, the latter is obviously more valuable than the former.

From Dagukou to the capital, Hong Tao sat with the three great men and chatted with them all the way as the carriage moved. When they arrived at the gate of Nanhaizi Imperial College, the three guests no longer showed the reservedness of arriving in a foreign country. They spoke louder and even dared to question the emperor's words to his face.

Besides Hong Tao himself, the person who has the most say in why things turned out like this is Pingtou Ge. Sitting in the driver's seat, he could hear the conversations in the convertible from time to time, but the more he listened, the more confused he became.

The emperor and the bearded old man named Jia said that the earth is a ball that revolves around the sun and is called the Earth. This is described in the navy textbook and a proof method is given.

But the textbooks did not explain that it is not just the Earth that revolves around the sun, but rather several other balls, and the Earth is the smallest and most inconspicuous one among them.

The bearded old man didn't believe it. The emperor said that there was a telescope in the academy's observatory, which could observe the trajectory of the balls. It was useless to argue whether it was true or not. Just go and see. Then he told the bald old man that there were very small living things on mice, which could only be seen with a microscope. They were called bacteria. After these bacteria enter the human body, they will multiply in large numbers and cause diseases. The black death that European countries talked about was caused by bacteria on mice, which was called plague.

Then he told the young man, who was like a servant, that the sky was not empty, but that there were many elements, called gases. These gases had weight, and wherever people stayed, they were carrying the weight of the gases, which was called atmospheric pressure.

The three Western guests obviously believed it, but they didn't seem to fully understand it. They kept asking the emperor questions. The emperor answered some of the questions, but didn't answer some of them. He told them to find the answers themselves and that the Imperial Academy had relevant equipment and information.

"What a trick!"

Although the flat-headed brother did not understand what the emperor said, he had already made a judgment in his heart and secretly gave a thumbs up. Liu Huangshu visited Zhuge Liang three times to invite him out, which led to the subsequent division of the world into three parts.

This His Majesty is obviously much more powerful than Uncle Liu. He doesn't even need to walk. He can convince the great scholars of the Western countries with just his mouth. It is very likely that he will have to stay in the academy honestly like the previous two, working diligently from morning till night every day, and be busier than the convicts in the factory.

The flat-headed brother roughly understood why the emperor did this. Each of these Western scholars had their own strengths. The emperor took great pains to invite them and then used various methods to retain them because he wanted the knowledge in their heads. And this knowledge should be of great use to the empire.

Are there any European scholars who came before Galileo? That is a must. Hong Tao's talent plan has been implemented for more than ten years, and no matter how slow it is, it should be able to catch a few small fish and shrimps.

In fact, the first European scholar who chose to try his luck in the mysterious Eastern country also had a great background and was very famous in later generations. I don’t know how many high school students gnashed their teeth in hatred after hearing his name, but had to recite it in vain.

This name that people both love and hate is Johannes Kepler! Born in Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire, he was a master of both astronomy and mathematics, and the discoverer of the three laws of planetary motion.

Ordinarily, such a talented person should be treated as a distinguished guest wherever he goes, so why would he leave his hometown? In fact, it is not the case. On the contrary, in history, many scholars, both in China and abroad, were not well received during their lifetime, and were even ostracized and had a very unhappy life.

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The reason is simple. Their knowledge is too advanced. Few people can understand it, let alone apply it. And as a scholar, it is bound to require a lot of funds to do research. No one is willing to sponsor such people. It is simply throwing money away.

Unless one is valued by the nobility, the royal family or the church, one can study academic subjects without worrying about food and clothing. But then again, the exploration of natural sciences and the Bible are often contradictory. In an environment with strong theocracy, whoever has the most research results is most likely to suffer misfortune.

Galileo is the best example. He had a friendship with the current Pope, but he still couldn't save himself. He had to accept the judgment of the Inquisition and make a statement against his will.

Kepler was even more miserable than Galileo. He was just the son of a mercenary. He had suffered from smallpox and scarlet fever since childhood. Not only was his face and body covered with scars, but his right hand was also disabled. He finally finished college with the help of his relatives, but lost the opportunity to serve in the church because of his belief in Copernicus's theory.

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