John Overholt on Nostr: The first image of what would become known as a tardigrade was published in 1773 by a ...

The first image of what would become known as a tardigrade was published in 1773 by a German pastor, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, who called them kleiner Wasserbär, “little water bears”. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tardigrade/