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 a 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 limbs of a flea! 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..."
"Study?" 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. The stack of information consisted of two parts: the top one was Ella's astronomical observation data, which was a series of dense numbers; and the bottom one was a series of diagrams.
Aila added dozens of epicycles to Ptolemy's orbit to explain the data.
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, and 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 on clothes here and there, seemingly 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 above 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 some kind of 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 death of an object only depend on 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 this manuscript was. However, he still answered seriously: "Cold, hot, dry, and wet. Cold and dry are earth, hot and dry are fire, and hot and wet are
It becomes wind, and cold and wet become water. If heat turns into cold, fire turns into earth.”
"That's right! Cold and hot are a set of opposites, and dryness and wetness are a set of opposites. It is precisely because of this relationship that 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 did not have any 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 depend on the existence of the object.
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?”
Speaking of this, Ella was stunned for a moment. She began to construct a trajectory model based on "the stars will perish" in her mind. But she quickly shook her head and erased this absurd idea from her mind.
.
"Although I think it is unreasonable for those who regard stars as gods. But there is no doubt that stars are immortal! Ever since I was a child, from ancient times to the present, I have never seen any record of the destruction of stars.
!Unless we can witness the destruction of stars with our own eyes, those who make such assumptions can only be ignorant dreamers!"
This was the first time for Ella that her theory was criticized as "mediocre". Therefore, the anger in her heart was unprecedented. But just when she was about to continue talking, the door of the laboratory was roughly pushed open, and a soldier
He rushed in hurriedly:
"King of Sweden, I finally found you! Britain has sent an envoy. He looks very anxious. Go and have a look!"
