Chapter 131: The door to the microcosm

After the knock on the door ended, a "come in" came from inside.

Two female advisers pushed the door into Paul's office and found the young earl playing with a strange thing.

He was so engrossed that he ignored their entry without even looking up.

The strange thing the Earl played with was in the shape of a cylinder, which seemed to be made of metal. It was fixed on a base on the table by two struts. Looking at the structure, it should be able to adjust the pitch angle like a cannon. The front end of the metal cylinder is getting closer and closer. The thinner it is, it is facing a transparent glass piece.

And Paul was putting his eyes on the back end of the metal cylinder, as if carefully observing what was inside the cylinder.

"Earl Greiman!"

Irene reminded him dissatisfiedly: "It's very rude to ignore the two ladies like this."

"Ah...wait for me a moment, it will be fine soon. Hmm...the microorganisms in the two worlds feel similar."

Paul said something that left the two female advisors scratching their heads.

Soon he raised his head and said excitedly: "You two are here just in time, come and see my new gadget—a microscope."

"What kind of weird thing is this?"

"A thing that can magnify the thing on the glass piece in front hundreds of times. Through the microscope, you can see a microscopic world that you have never seen before."

The lens master hired by Paul paid a lot of money to live up to expectations, and finally polished the lens lenses suitable for the manufacture of early microscopes.

At the beginning, the mirror surface was rough, so the effect was not ideal. As the lens master continued to try to improve the technique, and a group of apprentices also participated in the experiment, the fineness continued to improve, and finally won Paul. More recognized convex mirror lens.

Fortunately, the glass manufacturing technology in this world is relatively mature, otherwise he would have to worry about how to make high-quality glass.

After countless failed tosses, Paul and opticians assembled a "microscope", but it is not known how it compares with the early microscope invented by Leeuwenhoek.

Irene came to the table, followed Paul's example and moved her eyes to the back of the lens barrel.

"Alas-"

Erin made a disgusted sound and turned her head away quickly.

Her apricot eyes were wide open, and she glared at Paul, "Are you kidding me, Paul Grayman?"

In the end, she pronounced Paul's name almost word for word, gnashing her teeth.

But Paul was looking at her with a smirk on his face.

"What?" Ladi tugged at her friend's sleeve. Although after getting along for so long, she knew that the earl was a generous person, but he was a lord after all. What he said was a bit out of line.

"Look, he put some disgusting bugs in this cylinder to scare us."

"Miss Dias," said angrily.

Ladi went up to take a look, and she was also taken aback.

I saw some small "worms" inside. Although they were too small to see the specific appearance, they were constantly swimming and wriggling, which showed that they were alive.

"Lord Earl?" She suppressed the discomfort, and cast a questioning gaze on Paul.

Paul immediately put on an aggrieved expression, shrugged his shoulders and said: "You have wronged me, I didn't deliberately find some bugs to scare you, and they are not in this metal cylinder, but here .”

Paul pointed to the glass slide facing the front of the microscope.

The two female consultants looked together, and there was nothing on the glass except a trace of water.

"There's nothing on it!"

"Think about what I just said, you can see a 'microcosm' that you have never seen before."

"'Microcosm'? You mean their bodies are so small that we can't see them with our eyes, but we have to use this 'microscope' of yours to see them?"

"Miss Dias" asked aloud, the scholar's thirst for knowledge overwhelmed the anger just now.

"That's it. The microscope works by refracting light with two convex lenses."

"Convex lens?"

"The telescope you used before has a convex lens, and the magnifying glass we used to burn ants when we were young is also a convex lens."

"I didn't have that kind of vulgar and vicious hobbies when I was a child."

"Ah... sorry."

They observed the microscope carefully, indeed, besides the lens at the back, there was also a very small lens at the front end which resembled a cone.

Paul said: "The front lens is called the 'objective lens' because it faces the object to be observed, and the back lens is called the 'eyepiece' because it faces the human eye."

Ladi asked him, "How did you get these bugs on this piece of glass?"

"Bugs? I think it's more appropriate to call them 'microorganisms'—tiny organisms invisible to the human eye. As for how to get them on this piece of glass, I just dipped a little water and dripped it on."

Because most microorganisms, including bacteria, are transparent, it is not easy to observe them directly with an optical microscope, and they need to be stained to clearly distinguish them, but he is still unable to make gentian violet solution or acetate carmine solution For such artificial dyes, fortunately, he can also use natural dyes such as litmus and hematoxylin. The alchemists recruited from the capital helped him solve this problem.

"I see." The two female scholars nodded~www.readwn.com~ They took turns to use the microscope to observe again.

"There are still many things in this world that we don't know!"

"It is our duty to diligently explore these unknown mysteries."

The two scholars were talking quietly.

Suddenly, they realized something.

"You mean... this is a random drop of water..." Ladi Sulai's stable face showed a look of horror.

"This means...we usually use it for washing..." Irene's tongue began to tremble.

"Jie Jie Jie!" Paul smiled badly, "Congratulations on discovering the truth of this world."

"what-"

"bump-"

As a scream spread throughout the lord's mansion, a large group of guards and chief secretary Bernard broke in.

As soon as they entered the door, they asked sharply, "Assassins! Are there any assassins?"

But they only saw two consultant ladies with green faces and the earl who looked like he was watching a joke.

Paul waved his hands to them and explained, "Everyone, nothing happened. I was just discussing something about little lives with the two consultant ladies."

Things about little life? With the ladies...or with two beautiful ladies?

Everyone lamented that the young earl had grown up, and exited the room with tacit expressions on their faces.

"It's nothing to worry about, ladies. As long as we don't drink unboiled water, these little things will do no harm to our bodies, and I have found that simply boiling the water kills them. "

Seeing that the two female consultants were so frightened, Paul spoke to comfort them.

Boiling water kills them, the two female advisors took to heart.