Spontaneous generation is a superseded scientific theory that held that living creatures could arise from nonliving matter and that such processes were...

bacterial peritonitis Spontaneous combustion Spontaneous declaration Spontaneous emission Spontaneous fission Spontaneous generation Spontaneous human combustion...

research on biogenesis paved the way for the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation, a prevailing idea at the time that organisms develop from inanimate...

Leeuwenhoek). Pasteur was responsible for disproving the doctrine of spontaneous generation. Under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, his experiment...

leucopsis, were thought to have developed from this crustacean through spontaneous generation, since they were never seen to nest in temperate Europe, hence the...

dust or the supposed seasonal generation of mice and insects from mud or garbage. The theory of spontaneous generation was proposed by Aristotle, who...

parasitology". He was the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies. Having a...

development of the germ theory of disease, which put the concept of spontaneous generation to rest. Although the fermentation process had been used extensively...

the origin of life, from Aristotle until the 19th century, is of spontaneous generation. This theory held that "lower" animals such as insects were generated...

Greek word chaos) into the vocabulary of science, and his ideas on spontaneous generation. His name is also found rendered as Jan-Baptiste van Helmont, Johannes...