Lazzaro Spallanzani
Lazzaro Spallanzai, was the Italian physiologist who was one of the founders of
experimental biology. Born in Scandiano, a small town in the providence of Emilia on
Jan. 12, 1729 , Spallanzani was among the many dedicated philosophersof the eighteeth
century (Lazzaro...1). His main scientific interests were biological and was a master at
mircoscopy,but he also looked into problems of physics,chemistry, geology, and
meteorology, and volcanology (Gillispie,1).
After attending a local school, Spallazani went at afe fifteen to a Jesuit seminary
in Reggio Emilia where he dominated in rhetoric, philosophy, and languages. He left
Reggio Emilia in 1749 to study jurisprudence at the ancient University of Bologna, where
he expanded is education in mathematics, chemistry, natural history, and acquired
a knowledge of French (Asimov,1). For three years he worked toward his docterine in
law. In 1753 or 1754 he became a doctor of......
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