BASSI, Agostino (1773 – 1856)
1773 – 1856
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1835 CE–1836 CE
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Del mal del segno calcinaccio o moscardino malattia che affligge i bachi da seta e sul modo di liberarne le bigattaje anche le piu infestate. 2 vols.
Bassi preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms--a disease that was destroying the sil…
1925 CE
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