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The first scientist
who demonstrated with a experiment the falsity of the theory of
the spontaneous generation was the Italian Francisco Redi (1626-1698)
In his book "Experiences around the generation of the bugs",
Francisco Redi wrote:
" I put in four flasks with wide mouths asneak, some
river fishes, four small eels from Arno river and a piece
of calf; I locked very well the mouths of the flasks with paper
and
strings. Afterward I placed in other four flasks the same things
and left their mouths open.
Short time later the meat and the fishes inside the open flasks
became verminous, and after three weeks I saw many flies around
these flasks, but in the locked ones I've never seen a worm ".
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