• Eiim
    17·
    9 months ago

    On the other hand, spontaneous generation was very much still a thing at this point, so a lot of the basic rules of the world around us were really not worked out yet

    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      9 months ago

      it was not discredited until the work of the French chemist Louis Pasteur and the Irish physicist John Tyndall in the mid-19th century.

      There was a post on lemmy the other day about things that get their names from real people. I forgot that “pasteurize” was also one