Redi

[ re-dee ]

noun

1. Fran·ces·co [f, r, ahn-, ches, -kaw], 1626?–98, Italian biologist.

Example Sentences

A distant disciple of the maggot's biographer, I look at the problem in a light which Redi never dreamt of.

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At that time Francesco Redi published the results of his inquiries into the doctrine of spontaneous generation.

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Borelli in mathematics, Redi in natural history, and many others, enlarged the boundaries of knowledge.

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The ducal gallery contains portraits both of the master and of the scholar, by the side of those of Gabbiani and Redi.

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Redi, as we have seen, traced the maggots of putrefying flesh to the eggs of flies.

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