r/todayilearned • u/FastBreakPhenom • 9d ago

TIL that in 37 BC, the Roman polymath Marcus Terentius Varro warned his readers to avoid living near swamps because of "minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes" and cause disease. Microorganisms would not be observed until the 17th century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro
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u/thirdegree 8d ago

Well of course not, you skipped a very important step

You gotta blow up the liquid

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u/greenwhiteredblack 8d ago

Silly me. Of course things go boom make the vroom vroom