Harry Potter’s Morning Light

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  Boulton considered mineralogy to be a mature field for the Moonlight Society, a source of knowledge in metallurgy, pottery, and gas chemistry.

  Erasmus Darwin had a soft spot for botany. He was not only a doctor, but also made his own medicine and was a pharmacist. Therefore, botany has become a stage for the Moonlight Society to compete rather than cooperate.

   As for the flammable fountain that Metternich showed just now, Edgeworth understood it this way. It is composed of two combustible gases that make up water. After Metternich decomposes the water in a certain way, it becomes combustible.

  Georgiana thought that Metternich might have used gas or something, and then they began to discuss a "terrible" content.

  In the first chapter of Genesis, verse 1, what God first created was not light, but water and the earth. The earth was void and chaos, and the Spirit of God moved on the water, and then there was light.

   There is such a problem in their circle: whether the earth came into being with water or land.

  The "water formationists" represented by the German chemist Werner believed that the earth was once a solid core, surrounded by water containing chemical elements, and gradually formed rocks.

The Moonlight Society is an "ignorant" who noticed that the rocks have many vertical faults, and that the sedimentary cycle of the faults is often interrupted by the violent uplift cycle caused by the subsurface heat and pressure, so the earth's affairs are constantly and slowly suffered. to destruction and reorganization.

  Metternich is from Germany, and that combustible gas is the research result of their gang of "water-formers", Georgiana doesn't know what to say, because it violates the "Bible".

Noah built an ark to avoid the great flood and spared some species. Let’s not mention what the lions eat on the boat. They become "heretics", even pagans.

   This also explains why several key members of the Moonlight Society were on the list during the Birmingham riots.

As Newton did, if a scholar is trying to prove the operation of nature, he must find the same truth as the Bible, and cannot deny that God is the original creator, otherwise, even if he does not go to the inquisition like Galileo, the content will be different. Not getting the chance to get published, let alone publicize it.

  Some of the content belongs to basic education. Georgiana has read Muggle textbooks, and basic education in France is currently controlled by the church.

   This is still France after the theocracy was overthrown, not to mention Britain, which has not experienced the impact of the revolutionary wave and enlightenment ideas. Some people believe that making a train will cause infertility in newspapers, and some people intervene in railway company surveys.

You can call this kind of thinking radical, but pyrogenesis is indeed closer to the 20th century people's understanding of the earth, there is a layer of lava under the earth's crust, it is constantly flowing, causing the earth's crust to move, causing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and continental drift.

  The theory of water formation is not completely in line with the "Bible". Those ancient marine fossils are the result of the dramatic changes in the flood. We have to talk about three characters here.

  The first was Sir William Hamilton, husband of Nelson's mistress Emma Hamilton, a volcanologist and a proponent of the "fire theory". If it weren't for him because he's a cosmopolitan with a mindset that breaks away from secular Europe...

The other is his nephew, Charles Grenville, the young congressman who turned Emma into a noblewoman, and he gave Emma to his uncle not just because he wanted to marry one with him. The right wife, but also because he is insolvent.

His uncle repaid most of the money for him. In addition, about 15,000 minerals collected by Charles were sold to the British Museum. They were still the core collection of the British Museum in the 20th century. Charles used to go to caves with the Moonlight Society. , When Charles wanted to sell those collections, he contacted the people from the Moonlight Society. He felt that they "know better about the actual value of these minerals" and would not lower the price as much as the museum staff.

  The other is Lavoisier, who has nothing to do with geology, but let's put it this way, Georgiana would rather discuss "The Big Bang" than "another topic" with Edgeworth.

  Antoine Lavoisier was head of the French Gunpowder Authority for many years, and his improvements put France's ammunition far ahead of Britain in the "American War".

Leaving aside the "water debate", the words "instant explosion" and "revolution" gave Joseph Priestley the nickname "Gunpowder Joe" when in fact the name should have been "Gunpowder Antoine" , but Priestley was British, and then he became Gunpowder Joe.

  Joseph Priestley was a missionary whose religion and worldview were unfit for pulpit, and even in a city full of renegades, there was a part of his demeanor that not everyone thought was reasonable.

   He was both a scientist and a controversial theologian, and he deliberately went against Archdeacon Horsley, who was the editor of Newton's writings.

   There was a joke at the time, any aspiring priest, he just had to go against Priestley to get a crown. It was in this mood that Priestley gave a sermon on the day of the Bonfire, November 5, 1785, when he said:

  We are like putting gunpowder, one by one, under the ancient buildings of error and superstition, and a spark may burn and cause an instant explosion. So that building built over many years could be toppled in an instant, and so well it could never be built again on its original foundations.

After Priestley's provocative sermon, it wasn't just his opponents who moved quickly, there was a watchmaker named John Whitehurst, who was also a geologist, and he published a book, It's also about Genesis, but his book is neither "water theory" nor "fire theory", but twisted into an astonishing pattern, where he wants to cater to both Newton's gravitational force and the Bible . As the Bible says, the earth was initially chaotic, pulled into a spherical shape by gravity, and then released the atmosphere and water to completely surround the earth.

When you thought he was a "water theory", suddenly, with a "bang", the Garden of Eden appeared, and an island was formed under the combined action of the moon and tides. The island was full of plants and animals, but at the same time A lot of heat put pressure on the inner shell. This force caused cracks to form, water entered the core, and the huge water vapor produced caused the seabed to "bang" and exploded. Then came the big flood. When the lava entered the sea, it produced a huge explosion. Tearing the Earth into millions of fragments, the fragments formed islands, and the explosion created a vast, endless cavern into which the sea gushed, exposing mountains and continents that didn't exist before that era.

  When you think he is a "catastrophe theory" like Cuvier, he refuses to admit the drastic changes in the old catastrophe theory, insisting that the stratum is formed slowly and gradually. He emphasized the role of underwater fires, and that major floods were the result of dramatic changes, not the root cause.

   Just when you think he's a bunch of nonsense, he's backed up with detailed illustrations of stratigraphic arrangements, and he's even able to deduce from his theory what rock formations might be beneath younger rocks on the surface.

   All in all his work is revolutionary, juxtaposing grand theory with precise observation, even if many people find it uncomfortable. He added more data to the second edition of his book, including formations in North Wales and Giant's Causeway.

In fact, there has been no shortage of industrial spies since the British Industrial Revolution. In 1779, Watt took two Prussian tourists to visit Soho and invited them to go home for dinner. As a result, the two tourists made it according to his design as soon as they returned. their steam engine.

Another time, in 1784, when Ljungberg, a Dane settled in Birmingham, left the country suddenly, and although it was an open secret that he was a spy, customs found a large number of tools, machines, models in his bag Even the clay samples, for which the Danish embassy paid £300 bail, fled the UK as soon as he was released.

Although his bag was confiscated, the knowledge was still in his mind. With these, he became a high-ranking official in Denmark. Later, Soho obtained a steam engine order from Prussian Mining. The Prussian official responsible for contacting was Baron Stein, but he did not know What kind of opportunity, anyway, Ljungberg sneaked into a winery in London to check the facilities in the factory.

   This time he brought two assistants with bribes and graphite pencils, one of whom was Mr. Stanley.

  Watt recognized him. Although Stanley went fishing when Watt met and avoided the embarrassing meeting, Stanley still attended the large banquet at night. He probably thought that there were so many people that Watt would not see him.

  Karl von Linnaeus is a Swedish naturalist, especially good at botany. He is a member of the Royal Society of London along with Priestley and Whitehurst.

In fact, half of the members of the Royal Society are titled, and they have no actual research results, but Linnaeus quoted Priestley, Gere and Darwin as saying that the botanist John Fothergill's plants were carried out. Classification, which lists the classification concepts of class, order, genus, and species.

   Priestley is a very convincing person. Watt's son James Watt Jr. was somewhat influenced by him. In fact, it was not just Watt Jr., many people in Birmingham were influenced by him.

   After the Bonfire sermon, Priestley stressed that his approach was incrementalist, but by then he was no longer just on the “watch list” like James Watt Jr.

   Edgeworth was already in Ireland when the Birmingham riots broke out, and the “American War” made Irish people emotionally high, even aggressive, and many felt that only force could bring about real change. Edgeworth, a moderate who hoped to change through education, had come to France because he had heard that Napoleon had met with the Irish leader of the insurrection.

   In the restaurant at the time, Edgeworth and Bonaparte were in the same room, but he didn't go up to talk to her. He just showed her the music box with animation, and Watt didn't even see it.

   Edgeworth would be involved in politics until the end of his own life, and old Watt didn't want little Watt involved.

  If Georgiana helps them introduce, she can go to Stanley to hand over the equipment drawings of the Whitebread Brewery, one of the largest breweries in the UK, with 250 workers and an annual production of 50 million liters of beer.

   That is to say, this brewery produces an average of 200,000 liters of beer per person per year. If there is no machine, ten times more people will be exhausted.

Before tea entered the United Kingdom, the British had to consume half of the grain to make wine, which was also a problem in the Industrial Revolution. Manpower entered the factory, and the people engaged in agriculture had to use half of their hands to feed the same number of people, and half of the grain to make wine, So it needs a lot of grain imports from the US and India.

   This is not an old Watt leak, because it was a drawing that "The Danes" got a long time ago.

  Old Watt, who has 30 farms in mid Wales, is basically retired. He used to yell when little James read novels, and now he just hopes that those days will come back.

   "Why didn't he tell me himself?" asked Georgiana.

   "I think he's a little embarrassed," Edgeworth said. "You'll see that he's not the perfect hero of legend."

  She is weird.

   "You think steam will grow from plants?" Edgeworth asked.

   "Of course not!" she replied.

   "He said that if a steam engine could be found in a natural system, Linnaeus would be out of sight," Edgeworth said.

  Georgianna opened her mouth.

   "That's who he is." Edgeworth spread his hands. "I don't know where the story of the steam engine he invented when he saw the water on the stove boil and made the lid of the kettle keep jumping came from. He just improved the steam engine."

   "Maybe people think that inventing something out of nothing is greater than improving it." Georgiana paused. "I...he also improved other people's drug formulas."

   "Who?" Edgeworth asked knowingly.

  Georgianna looked at Laclay Taylor, who was on the side. She didn't know if he could understand English.

   "You mean Mr. Smith?" said Edgeworth.

   "No, it's Professor Snape."

  Georgianna looked at the fire in the farmhouse and said softly, then sighed.

   At the last Bonfire Festival, they used to sit on the rug in front of the fireplace and chat, she never imagined that there would be such a day.

   She didn't know what to call him.

   She stroked the bracelet on her wrist, which contained a strand of another man's hair.

   It is both true and false.

   Is this world still the one created by the Creator? If not, who created it?

   (end of this chapter)