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    Francesco Redi (18 February 1626 – 1 March 1697) was an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental...
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    Generazione degl'Insetti (Experiences of the Generation of Insects), Francesco Redi also described ecto- and endoparasites, illustrating ticks, the larvae...
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    Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Machiavelli, Galileo, and Francesco Redi, among many others in the arts and sciences. They were also protagonists...
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    In 1668, Italian physician Francesco Redi disproved the theory of spontaneous generation. The accepted theory of Redi's day claimed that maggots developed...
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    17th and 18th centuries by the experiments of the Italian biologists Francesco Redi and Lazzaro Spallanzani, it was not discredited until the work of the...
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    economy such as in academia, nonprofits, private industry, or government. Francesco Redi, the founder of biology, is recognized to be one of the greatest biologists...
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    Leeuwenhoek observed Giardia lamblia in his microscope in 1681, while Francesco Redi described internal and external parasites including sheep liver fluke...
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  • modern science, experimental refutations emerged. Italian physician Francesco Redi demonstrated in 1668 that maggots developed from rotten meat only in...
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  • Redi Vogli (born 1987), Albanian basketball player Francesco Redi (1626–1697), Italian scientist Gino Redi (1908–1962), Italian composer Tommaso Redi...
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    the experimental study of bodily functions and animal reproduction. Francesco Redi discovered that microorganisms can cause disease. Until the late 19th...
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  • written by an Italian polymath Francesco Redi in 1664 is regarded as the milestone in the beginning of toxinology research. Redi was the first scientist to...
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    fomites, or through particles in the air. In 1668, Italian physician Francesco Redi published experimental evidence rejecting spontaneous generation, the...
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    acquainted with physician Francesco Redi. The two became friends and began a lively correspondence, which is known chiefly through Redi's letters. The scientific...
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  • at the Hospital of St. Florence Maria Nuova, with teachers including Francesco Redi, Nicholas Steno, John Fynch among other prominent scholars. He fell...
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  • of animal, plant and microbial origin. In 1664 an Italian polymath Francesco Redi wrote his first monumental work Osservazioni intorno alle vipere (Observations...
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    l’anguille di Bolsena e la vernaccia. Vernaccia was also praised by Francesco Redi in his work, "Baccio in Toscana" (1685).. Vernaccia is mentioned by...
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    In 1685 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is also mentioned by the poet Francesco Redi, who, in addition to praising the work of Bacchus in Tuscany ("Montepulciano...
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    humans use for actions such as decision making. In the 17th century, Francesco Redi performed an experiment that involved removing the brain of a land tortoise...
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  • Spontaneous generation (1861) extending the rancid meat experiment of Francesco Redi (1668) to the micro scale. Charles Darwin and his son Francis, using...
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    Natural philosophers including Isaac Newton, Evangelista Torricelli and Francesco Redi conducted experiments focusing on the flow of water, measuring atmospheric...
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  • Leeuwenhoek of Delft in the last quarter of the 17th century. 1668 – Francesco Redi disproved spontaneous generation by showing that fly maggots only appear...
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  • Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1610-1670) (lover of Francesco Redi) Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1629-1665) Hortense...
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    worm with a proboscis armed with hooks – was made by Italian author Francesco Redi (1684). In 1771, Joseph Koelreuter proposed the name Acanthocephala...
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    February 17 – Francis Dane, American colonial priest (b. 1615) March 1 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626) March 12 – Gaspar de la Cerda, 8th Count...
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    threadworms, the Guinea worm and tapeworms. In Early Modern times, Francesco Redi recorded animal parasites, while the microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek...
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  • owned by Conte Pierucci, were bought. In 1820, the manuscripts of Francesco Redi were obtained, and in 1814, the autograph manuscripts of Vittorio Alfieri...
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  • Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Francesco Redi – Although letters from Redi to others which state Redi was a member of the Accademia del Cimento...
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    1859, who expanded upon the investigations of predecessors such as Francesco Redi. Disproof of the traditional ideas of spontaneous generation is no longer...
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    (1923) 4 Scherzi per musica di Messer Francesco Redi, Op. 35/1 (1924) 4 Scherzi per musica di Messer Francesco Redi. 2nd Series, Op. 35/2 (1925) 1830: 3...
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    The Italian Francesco Redi, considered to be the founder of experimental biology, was the first to recognize and correctly describe details of many important...
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