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  2. PAULA GOTTDENKER. The Tuscan physician Francesco Redi (1626-1698) is often having struck the first blow against the doctrine of spontaneous tion, that is the idea that organisms could be generated from antecedents. Some commentators, however, hold that the time-honored belief in this form of generation did not yield under his attack; rather, it ...

  3. Dec 30, 2021 · However, one of van Helmont’s contemporaries, Italian physician Francesco Redi (1626–1697), performed an experiment in 1668 that was one of the first to refute the idea that maggots (the larvae of flies) spontaneously generate on meat left out in the open air.

  4. Francesco Redi (1626-1697) was a scientist and writer of highest level. He spent his career at Medicean Court, where he developed a profound literary and philological knowledge, but specialising in the life sciences. Redi brought together erudition and a genuine experimental spirit, being the first to apply the experimental method to the life ...

  5. Francesco Redi. Born in Arezzo, Francesco Redi studied at the Jesuit school in Florence and graduated in medicine from Pisa in 1647. After visiting Rome, Naples, Bologna, Padua, and Venice, he began practicing medicine. In 1666, Grand Duke Ferdinand II (1610-1670) appointed him Chief Physician and superintendent of the Granducal spezieria ...

  6. Feb 28, 2020 · This observation was in line with what is usually considered his greatest contribution to science, the first refutation of spontaneous generation. In 1668, he published his experiments showing that maggots were not the product of decay, but rather the offspring of flies that laid their eggs in the meat.

  7. Abstract. From 1660 to 1697 Francesco Redi was physician to two Grand Dukes of Tuscany as well as a natural philosopher and poet at the Medici court. Redi produced the first experimental evidence that insects do not spontaneously generate from decaying matter and that the poison of the viper resides in the yellow fluid in fang sheaths.

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