Mémoire sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère. Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées. Offprint from: Annales de chimie et de physique, 3rd series, vol. 64.
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1862. First edition, very rare offprint, inscribed by Pasteur. “The longest and most important of Pasteur’s papers on spontaneous generation, describing the series of classic experiments with bent-necked and sealed flasks by which he proved conclusively that fermentation and putrefaction are not the products of spontaneous generation, but..... More
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