What was Francesco Redi's profession?
Physician and Poet
Lawyer
Painter
Architect
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Francesco Redi was a physician and poet, and is credited with conducting one of the first experiments that provided evidence against spontaneous generation. In his experiment, he placed a piece of meat in a flask with a muslin screen over the top, and in another flask he placed a piece of meat without the screen.
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