Marcus Terentius Varro, the Roman scholar who conceived the existence of microorganisms sixteen centuries before their discovery

When looking for the origin of microbiology, it is typical to refer to the latter part of the 19th century, when it developed as a science due to researchers like Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Martinus Beijerinck, Sergei Winogradsky, and Ferdinand Cohn. Nonetheless, there were trailblazers in ancient times, and in the West, the initial mention […]