Francesco Redi
1626-1697
Italian physician and scientist who demonstrated that maggots and flies do not arise by spontaneous generation in putrefying meat, but from eggs laid by adult flies. Redi desi...
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Francesco Redi was born in Arezzo, Tuscany. Credited with the birth of modern experimentation he applied his enquiring, deductive mind and astute powers of observation to designing controlled experime...
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