NOUN
- Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799)
How To Use Spallanzani In A Sentence
- Aristotle; all those subsequently repeated by Lucretius and Ovid; all the experiments of the renowned Abbé Spallanzani -- all the alleged "fantastic assumptions" of M. Bonnet -- all the theories of "panspermism," by whomsoever advocated -- all the fortuitous aggregations of "_molecules organiques, _" as put forth by the French school of materialists -- all the Life: Its True Genesis
- The theory of "panspermism," originating with the Abbé Spallanzani in modern times, and still stoutly advocated by M. Pasteur and some few others, is manifestly defective in this, -- that it goes beyond the inorganic limit in assigning vital units to all matter, even to its elemental principles. Life: Its True Genesis