Or abiogenesis, ancient theory holding that certain lower forms of life, especially the insects, reproduce by physicochemical agencies from inorganic substances. view went uncontradicted until after the middle of the 17th century, when the Italian physician and poet Francesco Redi disproved (1668) the prevailing notion that the maggots of flies were generated in putrefying meat exposed to air.
Background — Spontaneous Generation. Today, we take many things in science for granted. Many experiments have been performed and much knowledge has been accumulated that people ...
Until the early 19th century people frequently believed in spontaneous generation of life from non-living matter. Spontaneous generation. Classical notions of abiogenesis, now more ...
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