When Ella mentioned the instrument in his hand, Boyle became more energetic: "It is indeed your Eye of Hermes, King of Sweden! But it was slightly modified by me. The Eye of Hermes uses a A convex lens and a concave lens allow you to see things in the distance. And my instrument uses two convex lenses..."
From the principle to the production of the Eye of Hermes, Ella completed it all by herself, so before Boyle finished explaining, Ella reacted: "This way you can see very small things!"
"Yes! In order to make more effective medicine against the Black Death, Mr. Paracelsus has always wanted a pair of eyes that can see into details, so I thought of this..."
Before Boyle finished speaking, Ella snatched the Eye of Hermes from Boyle's hand and held it up.
"It's amazing! You can clearly see the flea's limbs! If you increase the magnification, you might be able to observe the basic elements that make up matter!" Ella shouted excitedly, "Boyle, from today on, you can enjoy Perks for being a teacher!”
"Teacher's allowance?" Boyle was surprised, "King of Sweden, I have only been in school for less than a year, and it will take a long time to graduate..."
"What's the problem? Gottfried didn't even go to school!" Ella patted Boyle's shoulder encouragingly, "I know how much superb alchemy skills are needed to make such lenses. Very. You are already qualified to be a teacher. Do you want to teach directly as a teacher?"
"I...? I want to continue to learn the art of alchemy from Teacher Paracelsus..."
"That's okay, but the subsidy will still be given to you. You must continue to improve this instrument. By the way, Boyle, have you ever studied astronomy?"
"Astronomy? I have learned a little bit..."
"Have you studied?" Ella grabbed Boyle's hand as if she had found some treasure, and stuffed the stack of information into his hand, "Then take a closer look at this stack of information, and you can find anything special. What?"
"A special place?"
Boyle carefully flipped through the stack of information. This stack of information consists of two parts: the top one is Aila's astronomical observation data, which is a series of dense numbers; and the lower part is a series of diagrams, which are the data that Aila used in Ptolemy to explain these data. Dozens of new epicycles have been added to the orbit.
When he saw the first part of the information, Boyle said nothing. When he saw the second part of the information, Boyle shook his head: "Who wrote this information? It looks very mediocre. I don't want to read it carefully."
"Mediocre?" Ella didn't expect Boyle to describe her work like this. "Look at it more carefully? The previous data cannot be explained by Ptolemy's epicycles, while the latter data cannot be explained by Ptolemy's epicycles. Can explain better..."
"I can't understand too profound astronomical knowledge." Boyle said, "What I see now is just an extremely complex system. Ptolemy's celestial system is very simple and beautiful. And the system in front of me is It's like pieces of rags sewn here and there on the clothes, as if they are trying to cover the holes, but they are just trying to hide them."
Ella argued hard: "But to explain the previous data, we can only use such a complicated system..."
"I don't think so." Boyle's hand drew a circle on Ella's manuscript paper, "Look, the epicycles and deferents here are still the same as Ptolemy's theory, they are perfect circles. Write Has the person who wrote this manuscript considered other different shapes of trajectories? Maybe he thinks that the circle is the simplest, but for the sake of such simplicity in details, the whole system becomes bloated and complicated. This is not the approach of a smart person at all. In fact, I think Ptolemy's use of perfect circles to draw these trajectories is theoretically untenable..."
"Why is it untenable?" Ella was anxious, "The orbit of the stars is a perfect circle, which is proved by Aristotle's theory!"
"I know Aristotle's argument. 'The birth of an object is due to a certain opposition in the object itself, and the destruction of an object is the transformation of one opposite of the object into another opposite. The birth and destruction of an object are only in the object. It only appears when there is opposition.’ Isn’t this premise very strange?”
"I find it strange that your knowledge is too poor!" Ella yelled, "Since you are an alchemist, you should know that matter is composed of the four basic elements of wind, water, fire, and earth. Then answer me, What are these four elements made of?”
From Ella's reaction, Boyle already knew who the owner of the manuscript was. However, he still answered seriously: "Cold, hot, dry, and wet. Cold and dry are earth, hot and dry are fire, hot and wet are wind, and cold and wet are water. If heat is converted into cold, fire will turn into earth. "
"That's right! Cold and hot are a set of opposites, and dryness and wetness are a set of opposites. Because of this relationship, the four elements can transform into each other. Matter never disappears, it is just transformed. From other substances To be transformed is life; to be transformed into other matter is death! What would happen if an element had no opposite? Answer me, Boyle?"
Boyle was stunned: "You are talking about the fifth element ether, which is independent of the four elements. Without any opposite, there is no way to transform it into any other matter... that is,... immortal?"
"That's why Aristotle said, 'The birth of an object is due to the existence of some kind of opposition in the object itself, and the destruction of an object is the transformation of one kind of opposite of the object into another kind of opposite. The birth and death of an object only occur when the object exists. It only happens when there is opposition'. Is there any problem with this?"
Boyle was speechless and had to bow and apologize: "King of Sweden, your knowledge is beyond my reach. It's me who is ignorant and incompetent."
But Ella was still angry and continued to chatter: "The star is immortal, so it does not have any opposites! The star is eternally moving, so its trajectory can only be positive without any opposites. Circle! It can't even be an ellipse, because it is a composite motion of a circle and a straight line, and straight line motion has an opposite. If there is an opposite, the state will change! You shouldn't forcefully refute me and say that stars will perish. , the motion of the stars will stop, right?"
Having said this, Ella was stunned for a moment. She began to construct a trajectory model in her mind based on the idea that "stars will perish". But she quickly shook her head and erased this ridiculous idea from her mind.
"Although I think it is unreasonable for those who regard stars as gods. But stars are immortal, there is no doubt about it! Ever since I was a child, and from ancient times to the present, I have never seen any record of the destruction of stars. ! Unless we can witness the destruction of the stars with our own eyes, those who make this assumption can only be unlearned dreamers!"
This is the first time for Ella that her doctrine has been criticized as "mediocre". Therefore, the anger in her heart was unprecedented. But just when she was about to continue speaking, the door of the laboratory was violently pushed open, and a soldier rushed in:
"King of Sweden, I finally found you! Britain has sent an envoy. He looks very anxious. Go and have a look!"
(End of chapter)
