Chapter 132 The Gate to the Microscopic World

After the knocking, a voice came from inside: "Come in." The two female consultants pushed the door and walked into Paul's office, and found that the young earl was fiddling with a strange thing. He was so focused that he ignored them and didn't even raise his head. The strange thing the earl was fiddling with was cylindrical and seemed to be made of metal. It was fixed to a base on the table by two struts. Judging from the structure, it should be able to adjust the pitch angle like a cannon. The front end of the metal cylinder was getting thinner and thinner, facing a transparent glass sheet. Paul was putting his eyes close to the back end of the metal cylinder, as if he was carefully observing what was in the cylinder. "Earl Graman!" Irene reminded him dissatisfiedly: "It is very impolite to ignore the two ladies like this." "Ah... Wait for me a moment, it will be ready soon. Um... The microorganisms in the two worlds feel similar." Paul said something that made the two female consultants confused. Soon he looked up and said excitedly: "You two have come at the right time. Come and see my new gadget - microscope."

"What is this strange thing?"

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

The lens master that Paul hired with a lot of money lived up to expectations and finally ground a lens suitable for making early microscopes.

At the beginning, because the mirror surface was relatively rough, the effect was not ideal. As the lens master continued to try to improve his skills, and a group of apprentices he brought out also participated in the experiment, the precision continued to improve, and finally obtained a convex lens that Paul recognized.

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 attempts, Paul and the lens masters assembled a "microscope", but I don't know how it compares with the early microscope invented by Leeuwenhoek.

Irene came to the table and put her eyes to the back end of the tube like Paul.

"Ah--"

Irene made a disgusting sound and turned her head away quickly.

Her almond eyes were wide open, glaring at Paul, "Are you kidding me, Paul Graman?"

Finally, she pronounced Paul's name almost word by word, gritting her teeth.

But Paul looked at her with a smirk.

"What is that?" Ladi pulled her friend's sleeve. Although she knew that the earl was a generous man after such a long time of getting along, he was a lord after all, and it was a bit over the line for her colleague to speak to him in such a tone.

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

"Miss Dias" said angrily.

Ladi came closer to take a look, and she was also shocked.

There were some tiny "bugs" inside. Although they were too small to see their specific appearance, they were constantly moving and wriggling, which showed that they were alive.

"Mr. Count?" She suppressed her discomfort and cast a questioning and slightly reproachful look at Paul.

Paul immediately changed to a wronged look, shrugged and said: "You are wronging me. I didn't deliberately find some insects to scare you, and they are not in this metal tube, but here."

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

The two female consultants looked at it together. There was nothing on the glass slide except a trace of water.

"There is nothing on it!"

"Think about what I said just now. You can see a 'microscopic world' that you have never seen before."

"'Microscopic world'? Do you mean that their bodies are so small that we can't see them with our eyes, and we must use your 'microscope' to see them?"

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

"That's right. Microscopes work by refraction of light by two convex lenses."

"Convex lens?"

"The telescope you used before was equipped with a convex lens. The magnifying glass we used to burn ants when we were young was also a convex lens."

"I didn't have such vulgar and vicious hobbies when I was young."

"Ah... sorry."

They carefully observed the microscope. Indeed, in addition to the lens at the back, there was also a very small lens at the front end of the cone-like structure.

Paul introduced: "The front lens is facing the object being observed, so I call it the 'objective lens'. The back lens is facing the human eye, so I call it the 'eyepiece'."

Lady asked him: "How did you get these little bugs on this glass?"

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"Insects? 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 randomly 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. They need to be stained to be more clearly distinguished. However, he is still unable to make artificial dyes such as gentian violet solution or acetic acid magenta solution. Fortunately, he can still use natural dyes such as litmus and hematoxylin. The alchemists recruited from the royal capital helped him solve this problem.

"I see." The two female scholars nodded, and 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 explore these unknown mysteries diligently."

The two scholars talked in a low voice.

Suddenly, they realized something.

"You mean... this is a drop of clean water taken at random..." Ladi's usually steady face showed a look of horror.

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

"Hehehe!" Paul smiled evilly, "Congratulations on discovering the truth of this world."

"Ah-"

"Bang-"

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 sternly: "Assassin! Is there an assassin?"

But they only saw two consultants with green faces and the count who looked like he was watching a joke.

Paul waved his hand and explained, "Nothing happened, everyone. I was just discussing some small life matters with the two consultants."

Small life matters? Discussing with the ladies... or with the two beautiful ladies?

Everyone sighed that the young earl had grown up, and left the room with a tacit expression on their faces.

"Ladies, there is nothing to worry about. As long as we don't drink raw water, these little things will not harm our bodies, and I also found that as long as we boil the water, we can kill them."

Seeing the two female consultants so scared, Paul comforted them.

Boiling water can kill them, and the two female consultants remembered this firmly.