Spallanzani, Lazzaro

MJ Ratcliff, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002486

1729–1799 Italian priest and naturalist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation.

Keywords: spontaneous generation; natural history; experimental biology; microscopy; physiology

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Further Reading
	book Spallanzani L (1784, 1786) Tracts on Animals and Vegetables. London (orig. Ital.: Modena, 1776).
	book Spallanzani L (1784, 1789) Dissertations Relative to the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables. London (orig. Ital.: Modena, 1780).
	book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
	book Montalenti G and Rossi P (eds) (1982) Lazzaro Spallanzani e la biologia del Settecento. Florence: Olschki.