Francesco Redi Accomplishments

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Redi’s accomplishments benefited people in a tremendous way! He experimented over snakes and there venom and how to possibly save lives, which I love because snakes are a cool reptiles but people seem to stay away from snakes and not look at them and want to have the as pets or think their cool because they are scary things and for the venomous ones to bite you and die or almost die is crazy. Francesco Redi discovered one major discovery being that flies would lay eggs on meats and other things like that and they would turn in to maggots, which at first he thought that living organisms could arise from nonliving matter, which he with his experiments and different hypothesis he found to be false and that this wasn’t spontaneous generations. A couple interesting …show more content…

A collection of his letters is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Redi is most well known for his series of experiments, published in 1668 as Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione degl'Insetti (Experiments on the Generation of Insects), which is regarded as his masterpiece and a milestone in the history of modern science. Quotes by Redi which were his two most famous quotes of all times! “Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.” “Good Chianti, that aged, majestic and proud wine, enlivens my heart, and frees it painlessly from all fatigue and sadness.” Citations- https://www.thoughtco.com/biography-of-francesco-redi-4126774 Buettner, Kimberly A., "Francesco Redi (1626-1698)". Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2007-11-01). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/1701. Sant, Joseph (2017). Francesco Redi and Controlled Experiments. Retrieved from http://www.scientus.org/Redi-Galileo.html on Oct 30, 2017. https://www.myheritage.com/names/francesco_redi

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