Spontaneous generation is a superseded scientific theory that held that living creatures could arise from nonliving matter and that such processes were...

leucopsis, were thought to have developed from this crustacean through spontaneous generation, since they were never seen to nest in temperate Europe, hence the...

research on biogenesis paved the way for the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation, a prevailing idea at the time that organisms develop from inanimate...

Leeuwenhoek). Pasteur was responsible for disproving the doctrine of spontaneous generation. Under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, his experiment...

parasitology". He was the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies. Having a...

dust or the supposed seasonal generation of mice and insects from mud or garbage. The theory of spontaneous generation was proposed by Aristotle, who...

bacterial peritonitis Spontaneous combustion Spontaneous declaration Spontaneous emission Spontaneous fission Spontaneous generation Spontaneous human combustion...

the origin of life, from Aristotle until the 19th century, is of spontaneous generation. This theory held that "lower" animals were generated by decaying...

development of the germ theory of disease, which put the concept of spontaneous generation to rest. Although the fermentation process had been used extensively...

Greek word chaos) into the vocabulary of science, and his ideas on spontaneous generation. His name is also found rendered as Jan-Baptiste van Helmont, Johannes...

that spontaneous generation had been effectively disproven. Pasteur remarked, about an 1864 finding of his, "Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation...

physician Francesco Redi published experimental evidence rejecting spontaneous generation, the theory that living creatures arise from nonliving matter. He...

their kind, whilst others grow spontaneously and not from kindred stock; and of these instances of spontaneous generation some come from putrefying earth...

experiments used to support germ theory as the cause of fermentation over spontaneous generation from bad air (miasma). Gooseneck (piping) Pelczar, Michael J; Chan...

Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal...

started the process. This was strong evidence against the theory of spontaneous generation, the idea that living organisms could develop out of nonliving matter...

December 1872) was a French naturalist and a leading proponent of spontaneous generation of life from non-living materials, and as such an opponent of Louis...

tainted wheat, in containers. This was in order to experiment with spontaneous generation. Needham was curious on how this term was relevant. The experiments...

concluded that all animals, including mammals, develop from eggs, and spontaneous generation of any animal from mud or excrement was an impossibility. 1665 –...

using a phrase in multiple senses Equivocal generation, in biology, the disproven theory of spontaneous generation from a host organism Equivocation (disambiguation)...

Tyndall experimentally disproved the (now superseded) theory of spontaneous generation, which suggested that life was constantly evolving from non-living...

for the growth was a large blow to the previous suggestions of spontaneous generation. Astrophysicist Steinn Sigurdsson said "There are viable bacterial...

was multiplying in quantity. This led to Hooke suggesting that spontaneous generation, from either natural or artificial heat, was the cause. Since this...

empirical reasons and promoted by force. Spontaneous generation – a principle regarding the spontaneous generation of complex life from inanimate matter...

detailed work, it had been thought that insects were "born of mud" by spontaneous generation. Her pioneering research in illustrating and describing the various...

that microorganisms caused food spoilage, debunking the theory of spontaneous generation. In the 1880s, Robert Koch discovered that microorganisms caused...

associated with William Harvey (1578–1657), was a rejection of spontaneous generation and preformationism as well as a bold assumption that mammals also...

being created by spontaneous generation in what has been described as a "steady-state biology". Lamarck saw spontaneous generation as being ongoing,...

natural selection. The end of the 19th century saw the fall of spontaneous generation and the rise of the germ theory of disease, though the mechanism...

noted that parasites develop from eggs, contradicting the theory of spontaneous generation. Modern parasitology developed in the 19th century with accurate...