Pasteur's Theory Of Maggots

Francesco disproved the theory of spontaneous generation through his controlled experiment with the maggots and the meat. Redi hypothesized that maggots did not magically appear from the meat, like the people at the time thought, but rather hatched from the objects deposited by the flies. He tested this by placing meat in two jars, one with no lid (the control group) and the other with a cloth cover (the experimental group). If spontaneous generation was valid, then both jars would’ve had maggots squirming about, however only one did: the one that was accessible to the flies. This experiment proved that the theory of abiogenesis was in fact false. This experiment was very important because at the time there was a wide spread belief that spontaneous generation was true and that living things could come from non-living things. Due to Redi’s findings, we now know that is not true.

Pasteur was also a believer of biogenesis like Francesco Redi. After the discovery of unicellular organisms, a controversy about spontaneous generation sparked once more. Using his previous studies and experimentation on fermentation, Pasteur set out to prove biogenesis through his experiment. In Louis …show more content…
He studied blood cells, pond water organism among other things with a microscope that had a magnification of up to 500X. Through the microscope lenses, he observed cells. He was able to become the first person ever to describe the single celled organisms after he looked at the matter scraped from his teeth. Van Leeuwenhoek published and wrote about his findings just like Robert Hooke and called the single celled organisms “animalcules”. During his time, Antony not only improved the design of the microscope through his more skillfully constructed lens, but he also contributed to the study of microbiology. His discoveries helped other scientists explain the basis of life and learn more about single celled