What facts did Redi's, Spallanzani's, and Pasteur's experiments establish? What broader scientific understanding about life did the experiments explore? How does the example of these experiments demonstrate science as a was of knowing?
wow bro well different poeple at different times but i guess that they all studied spontaneous generation.
Specifically, their experiments proved that there was NO spontaneous generation of life. Therefore that Life had to have started somewhere, and didn't just appear out of, say, a rotting fruit. The experiments -- those relating to spontaneous generation, anyway -- explored the origins of Life on our world, and how it came to be ! for your last question, you'll have to clarify that a bit, as "a was of knowing"'s meaning is pretty unclear to me... As an alternative answer, Spallazani and Pasteur's experiments were designed to reject another theory , Preformationism, that said that all life developed from "miniature" versions of themselves ! Thoughn I'd go with Spontaneous Generation as being the answer, since Redi worked on that, and not on preformationism.
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