Search results
Francesco Redi (born Feb. 18, 1626, Arezzo, Italy—died March 1, 1697, Pisa) was an Italian physician and poet who demonstrated that the presence of maggots in putrefying meat does not result from spontaneous generation but from eggs laid on the meat by flies.
Francesco Redi (18 February 1626 – 1 March 1697) was an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. [1] He is referred to as the "founder of experimental biology ", [2] [3] and as the "father of modern parasitology ".
Sep 9, 2018 · Francesco Redi was an Italian naturalist, physician, and poet. Besides Galileo, he was one of the most important scientists who challenged Aristotle 's traditional study of science. Redi gained fame for his controlled experiments.
Francesco Redi's was an innovative scientist, physician, and poet. His scientific work resulted in a number of significant milestones: he showed that flies breed and lay eggs and do not, as was popularly believed, spontaneously generate; his microscopic examination of parasites marked the founding of modern parasitology; and in studying chemical.
May 21, 2018 · REDI, FRANCESCO (b. Arezzo, Italy, 18 February 1626; d. Pisa, Italy. 1 March 1697 or 1698)entomology, parasitology, toxicology.Redi was the son of Gregorio Redi, a renowned Florentine physician who also worked at the Medici court, and Cecilia de’ Ghinci.
However, one of van Helmont’s contemporaries, Italian physician Francesco Redi (1626–1697), performed an experiment in 1668 that was one of the first to refute the idea that maggots (the larvae of flies) spontaneously generate on meat left out in the open air.
Nov 1, 2007 · Francesco Redi, son of Florentine physician Cecilia de' Ghinci and Gregorio Redi, was born in Arezzo, Italy, on 18 February 1626. He studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Pisa, graduating on 1 May 1647. A year later, Redi moved to Florence and registered at the Collegio Medico.
Jul 11, 2024 · (1626–1697) Italian biologist, physician, and poet. Redi, who was born at Arezzo in Italy, studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Pisa, graduating in 1647. He was employed as personal physician to Ferdinand II and Cosimo III, both grand dukes of Tuscany.
The work, dedicated to Carlo Dati (1619-1676), refutes the age-old theory of spontaneous generation of insects and parasites with a decisive experiment. Redi introduced into the scientific method a serial procedure and a comparison between research experiments and control experiments.
From 1660 to 1697 Francesco Redi was physician to two Grand Dukes of Tuscany as well as a natural philosopher and poet at the Medici court.
