31st December 1655


    Dakshin Bharatiya Empire, Vijayanagara State


    Ganapatra Pii had sessfully developed the telescope for astronomical observations. He wrote a thick report about his experimental process, findings, theories, multiple theses that came out of this research, and various expectations for this technology. He sent it through the mail to the Bharatiya Academy of Sciences and to His Majesty, the Emperor.


    With some of his theories being proved, he went on to design and produce a smaller variation of thisrger astronomical telescope for naval use. Researching this smaller telescope proved to be much easier since the theory was established, and hepleted the research work within a week.


    In the span of a month, The progress was not only within the Pii Optics factory but also within the Bharatiya Academy of Sciences.


    Because 20 days ago...


    "Wow!"


    "Oh, Shiva!"


    "So the Jains were right all along, Damn it."


    Various shouts were heard within the biological department inside the Bharatiya Academy of Sciences as soon as they found out about the real use of the microscope they received.


    Although in the beginning, they were doubtful as to why His Majesty would send them a microscope instead of the physics department, they nheless tried to use it in observing multiple inorganic objects, since their department rarelyes into contact with such innovations.


    That was until one student, curious enough to actually look at the stem of a newly growing pea nt, used in the study of biological inheritance ording to Gaana Vidya’s model, found small and tiny green cells by the thousands upon thousands. Each of them was like individual building blocks of a giant building, alling together to form the biological life form called the pea nt.


    Subsequently, the professors, startled by the student’s exmation, also tried to use the microscope on organic matter. And famously On this day, 18th December 1655, the gate of microbiology opened to the scientists of the Dakshin Bharatiya Empire.


    With the microscopic world revealing itself for the first time to human eyes, there was a flurry of excitement within the Biological Department of the Bharatiya Academy of Sciences.


    This excitement was so intense that the news about tiny creatures invisible to the naked eye spread to various medical universities, and eventually, it even crossed departments, which rarely urred, and spread throughout the different scientific fields of the empire. The Department of Biology formally came into the sight of top dog departments like metallurgy or chemical sciences department.


    Subsequently, dozens of discoveries were made, continuously expanding a new horizon in the field of biology and clinical sciences.


    Numerous theses were produced subsequently on white blood cells, red blood cells, yeast cells, sperm cells, and even somerger bacterial cells. Due to this, the aftereffects were felt immediately in the production of both penicillin and morphine as the purity of these drugs improved due to now being able to roughly identify the required cells.


    Surprisingly to Vijay, many theses were produced upon legitimate Ayurvedic concoctions, which actually showed visible results on the body at a microscopic level.


    When this news originally reached him, he immediately ordered the Minister of Health Lokesh, to n for the setting up of the Imperial Drug Standard Control Organization to regte the spreading of Ayurvedic medicine and drug-based medicines.


    The purpose was to ensure that anything approved by the organization is safe to use, while simultaneously banning all other medicines that have not proved their effectiveness.


    With this new wave, Vijay wanted to push for Bharatiya’s medical knowledge to be analyzed with the rigour of Western logical reasoning methods.


    Surprisingly, he didn’t have to, because even without Vijay’s direct involvement, the scientists, who still had some faith in the Ayurvedic system due to the existence of legitimate Ayurvedic inscriptions and prescriptions from famous schrs from the past, delved into them conducting rigorous research.


    They attempted to incorporate these medicines invented by great sages into a logical and objective drug research system.


    The Physics Department, amazed by the use of the small microscope produced by Mr Ganapatra Pii, was very excited after receiving an order for the research of a handheld telescope with five times magnification.


    So inspired by the Pii Microscope, a project team was formed inside the Bharatiya Academy of Sciences,posed of physicians and artisans proficient in ssmaking, to produce a 5 times magnification telescope.


    The difficulty of this invention, although not as hard as the Reflector telescope Pii invented, was still challenging, as there were no theories for the production of these telescopes.


    Hence, for the first few days after receiving the order, the group of scientists proceeded to experiment with the Pii Microscope, tweaking each and every one of its details and noting down each and every result that came from it.


    They made slow but gradual progress. The only challenging part was figuring out that the telescope needed a secondary lens as an eyepiece. But after solving that, it was only a matter of trial and error, tweaking the details on the sizes of both lenses.


    Finally, after six prototypes and countless theoretical assumptions, the scientists came up with an objective lens made of ss, convex in shape, and 500 mm in thickness. It had an eyepiece made of ss with a thickness of one hundred millimetres.


    When the testingmenced, as expected, the magnification reached five times.


    In inventing this telescope, they also discovered that the size of the entrance through which light passes affects the viewed image. Thus, they developed the theory of aperture. After incorporating this theory into the telescope, the optimum aperture was found to be around fifty millimetres.


    Finally, to polish the design and submit the finished product to his majesty, the scientists incorporated multiple small but useful features into the telescope. A tube made of wood, with a length of seven hundred millimetres and a diameter of eighty millimetres, and weighing around 1.2 kg, was constructed.


    For mounting the telescope, they came up with alt-az type mounting or equatorial type mounting used on different asions.


    With the finalpletion of the telescope and its testing, it was already the 31st of December, 1655.


    Both the scientific research team and Ganapatra Pii were greatly taken aback and delightfully surprised by each other’s inventions.


    Reading each other’s research papers and theses, they continued to add details to their own inventions. The team at the Bharatiya Academy found out about numerous theories and conjectures, and they also implemented the theory of focal length, whereas Ganapatra Pii also learned a lot about different ways to use lenses.


    Additionally, he learned about the aperture for the first time, So without any hesitation, he went on to apply the theory to his own telescope.


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    After testing both products, they yielded improved results.


    Thus, the two days of December 30th, 1655, and December 31st, 1655, will be known as the optical revolution of the Millennium, opening the door for the Dakshin Bharatiya Empire’s optical dominance for centuries toe.


    P.S. Should I have filled it with reactions and dialogues for 1.5k words? lemme know, currently, it’s 1.2k