#spontaneous generation

Stories tagged “spontaneous generation” in the Weird Science History archive — 2 stories connected by this topic.

• From Aristotle's Mud to Freud's 400 Eels: A Short History of the Eel Question
• The Recipe for Making Mice Out of a Sweaty Shirt and a Jar of Wheat

Related topics: #17th century #Anguilla anguilla #Aristotle #controlled experiment #European eel #Francesco Redi #Jan Baptist van Helmont #Johannes Schmidt