Ento. 101: Who?(II) – Aristotle to the end of the 17th century

Entomologists from Aristotle to the end of the 17th century. Not only can we thank Aristotle for the term ‘entomology’, he is also the first person we know to have written about insects and other arthropods in an empirical way. Aristotle (384 – 322 BCE) placed animals in two defining groups – those with blood, […]