-Place an open container with
wheat and clothing scraps
after 20 days rats will emerge.
- Van Helmont
-Meat broth in containers without
closing properly, colonies of
microorganisms are formed (these
are generated spontaneously).
- Needham
-Broths boiled in elongated and
curved flasks made it difficult for air
to pass through the living organisms
that appear in flasks with short
necks come from the outside.
- Needham
-3 jars with beef, one sealed, the
other open, and the other with
mesh. Conclusion: Flies hatch
from their own eggs. They are
not generated from
decomposing matter.
-Redi
-Same experiment well sealed
containers while they were
closed did not grow anything
but when opened colonies of
microorganisms appeared
-Spallanzani