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1530
Girolamo Fracastore coined the
term syphilis to describe an
Outbreak that ravaged Europe In
the 15th century.
He called the disease agent
'seminaria morbi' (living, germs)
that spread via ‘contagium vivum'
(contagious),
1665
Robert Hooke confirmed
Aristotle's postulation that living,
things comprise of frequently
repeated basic units (ces)
He made the first powerful
compound micrescope.
Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek made lenses that
could see microbes up to 3000yMm
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Roger Bacon (1220-1292)
postulates that disease is caused
by invisible living creatures.
He invented the magnifying glass
1658
Athanasius Kircher defined the
Invisible organisms in decaying
1665
Francisco Redi, an italian,
showed by experimentation that
maggots are larval stage of flies,
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