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was a great scientific mind and a well accomplished poet and author. He revolutionized scientific ideas of his day with groundbreaking experiments and scientific beliefs. His main accomplishment was the disproving of spontaneous generation. This discovery shoc ....

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.... to help prove those scientific theories. From this Aristotlian support, he conducted his spontaneous generation experiments. Unfortunately, Redi died on March 1st in Pisa, Italy at the age in seventy-two. This was a grand age for the period at which he lived. Spontaneous generation "is the ability of living organisms can originate in nonliving matter independently of other living matter.(Webster's)" This was popular belief before the seventeenth century. People saw dead organisms decay but couldn't understand how. They believed that microorganisms were able to appear on dead organisms without any contact with any other organism. Redi was ou ....