Although Arthur's words were not long, they indeed sounded quite uplifting.
Herbart thought for a moment, and what the academic director said was not entirely without reason.
The University of Gottingen was not modest; if Germany's natural philosophy community had one shilling, Gottingen would deserve eight pennies. And in individual fields like mathematics, Gottingen even more so could overshadow the entire German mathematics community with just one person, Gauss.
More importantly, Gottingen's advantage in the field of electromagnetism is no smaller than in mathematics.
In electromagnetism, besides Gauss and the academic director himself, there is also William Weber and others.
Moreover, even Mr. Charles Wheatstone recently helped the Observatory set up a telegraph line and received the honorary professor title from the University of Gottingen.
