| Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps by Kees Boeke (1957) |
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The height from where we are supposed to be looking has now been reduced
to 0.5 millimeters or 500 microns. This is the last domain of scale in which an
impression of color can be gotten by the human eye. The living creatures here
are bacteria. We see some on the girl's hand: colon bacilli (1) and diphtheria
bacteria (2), tubercle bacilli (3), and pneumonia bacteria (4). The bacterium in
the inset in the lower right corner can now be recognised as a typhoid bacillus
(5), such as humans may "carry" unknowingly for a long time. Its flagella (by
which it moves) are clearly shown. We shall magnify it separately in an inset at
the same place in the following pictures. This means that what is shown in the
small quarter circle will each time be magnified 10 times, so that it will fit into
the large quarter circle in the next picture.
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