More than any writer of his period, Redi, physician to the Court of Florence, and also a poet of considerable eminence, set himself to refute the old doctrine of spontaneous generation ...

The theory of spontaneous generation, for many years scorned by most scientists, received an unexpected revival last week from George Wald, professor of Biology, at the recent meeting of the ...

This theory of 'free cell formation' was reminiscent of the old 'spontaneous generation' doctrine (although as an intracellular variant), but was refuted in the 1850s by Robert Remak (1815–1865) ...