| Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps by Kees Boeke (1957) |
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The electron microscope helps us to get an idea of the shapes of some of the living
creatures. We see a diphtheria bacillus (1) and a colon bacillus (2), which itself
is being attacked by bacteriophages (3), as well as a smallpox virus (4). We
see how keratin of the skin is curling up (5) before falling off. Some gold leaf
(6) left on the girl's hand, possibly from book binding, demonstrates its extreme
thinness; in fact this gold leaf is so thin that you could use it to cut a bacterium,
such as is depicted near it, in two, if only you could hit it. The visible rays from
the sun are symbolically represented by two sinusoids (waves) with the wave
lengths of red (7) and violet (8) light. The inset shows the typhoid bacillus (9)
with its flagella (10). The salt crystal's height on this scale would be 5 meters.
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