Ciron (Arachnida)

See also: Ciron

The ciron ( Acarus siro ) or tyroglyphe of the flour is small a Acarien parasite of cheese of a size of 0,5 Misters It is used voluntarily during the refining of certain cheeses like the old mimolette and certain tome cheeses (known as céronnées).

Until the development of the first microscopes during second half of the 17th century, this Arachnida were regarded as the smallest animal of Creation. Blaise Pascal devotes to him some of its more beautiful lines, not hesitating to see there a reversed reflection of the infinity of the Universe ( Pensées , Br. 72, Lafuma 199) - just as, later, Malebranche ( Of the Research of the truth , I, CH. 6, I, p. 55 sq. in the edition of the Pleiad). It is humanistic of Provence the Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) which gave the first description of it.

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