We owe the earliest scientific entomological information to the famous Greek philosopher and naturalist Aristotle (384–322 BCE). Among other groups of
animals, insects are also treated in his eminent workDe
Partibus Animalicum. However, the outstanding scholar
pointed out that insects were so insignificant that they
weren’t worth of the types of investigations dedicated
to vertebrates such as “fish”, “reptiles” and mammals.
In Western Europe the roots of scientific entomology
and insect morphology go back to the 17th century.
In 1669 the Dutch naturalist, anatomist and microscopist Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680) published his