What is Francisco Redi's claim to fame?

Answer by  abby29 (35)

Maggots were believed to form from rotting meat until Francisco Redi conducted his experiments refuting spontaneous generation and proved that maggots came from flies that lands on the rotting meat.

Answer by  fishy (1085)

Francisco Redi was able to show through his experiments that there was no such thing as spontaneous generation of organisms and that organisms like maggots just arose from rotting animal carcasses. He proved that the maggots came about as the result of flies.

Answer by  koti (205)

Francisco Redi is most known for his experiments and for refuting the "spontaneous generation" theory. It was formerly believed that maggots formed on all rotting meat as a process of decay but Francisco's experiments using jars, gauze and raw meat proved this theory wrong. And also proved that maggots came from flies that landed on the rotting meat.