This is the oldest image of a bug's brain

In the mid-1670s, Johannes Swammerdam, a Dutch biologist, peered through his microscope at a honeybee's brain and drew what he saw. That illustration, seen above, is the oldest known image of a bug brain.

Writing in the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, Andrea Strazzoni of the Università di Torino, tells us everything we could possibly want to know about the drawing, the manuscript in which it appeared, and the historical significance of the work. — Read the rest

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