Question

Quem foi Jonh Needhan e qual resultado obtido por ele?

Answer 1

John Turberville Needham, mais conhecido como John Needham, foi um clérigo católico e naturalista inglês. Ele foi o primeiro clérigo nomeado fellow da Royal Society de Londres. Ele também é conhecido por sua teoria da geração espontânea e a evidência científica que ele tinha apresentado para apoiá-lo.

Nascido em Londres em 1713, John Turbeville Needham era católico e mas ele se tornou um padre. Na verdade, foi ordenado em 1738, no entanto, ele preferiu gastar seu tempo como professor e tutor.

Answer 2

John Turberville Needham FRS (10 September 1713 – 30 December 1781) was an English biologist and Roman Catholic priest.

He was first exposed to natural philosophy while in seminary school and later published a paper which, while the subject was mostly about geology, described the mechanics of pollen and won recognition in the botany community.

He did experiments with gravy and later, tainted wheat, in containers. This was in order to experiment with spontaneous generation. Needham was curious on how this term was relevant. The experiments consisted of briefly boiling a broth mixture and then cooling the mixture in an open container to room temperature. Later, the flasks would be sealed, and microbes would grow a few days later. Those experiments seemed to show that there was a life force that produced spontaneous generation.