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| journal=Philosophy of Science
| journal=Philosophy of Science
| volume=69
| volume=69
| month=September | year=2002 |page=480, 495 | pages=474–496
| month=September | year=2002 |pages=480, 495 | pages=474–496
| format=PDF
| format=PDF
| url=http://spot.colorado.edu/~cleland/articles/Cleland.PS.Pdf
| url=http://spot.colorado.edu/~cleland/articles/Cleland.PS.Pdf
|url=http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/louis_pasteur.htm
|url=http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/louis_pasteur.htm
|accessdate=02-03-2013
|accessdate=02-03-2013
|quote="I am afraid that the experiments you quote, M.Pasteur, will turn against you. The world into which you wish to take us is really too fantastic."
|quote="I am afraid that the experiments you quote, M.Pasteur, will turn against you. The world into which you wish to take us is really too fantastic." La Presse, 1860}}</ref> Yet it was Pasteur, who in his historical lecture at the Sorbonne university in Paris on April 7, 1864 experimentally demonstrated that the belief of his opponents was "a mere chimera" and that they were deluded by their poorly conducted experiments when error in their experiment was introduced by using the mercury contaminated by everywhere-present dust which brought the germs into the flask. He showed that when experiment repeated with flask that has the curved neck and surrounding air is not extremely turbulent, the hay alias infusion in the flask remains completely unchanged, i.e. without any mold (living micro-organisms) developed even when left so for arbitrarily long time. Pasteur declared that it remained thus because he had deprived it "of the one thing not given to Man to produce, ... of [[life]] itself" and that the doctrine of spontaneous generation suffered the mortal blow inflicted by this experiment.<ref>{{cite web
La Presse, 1860}}</ref> Yet it was Pasteur, who in his historical lecture at the Sorbonne university in Paris on April 7, 1864 experimentally demonstrated that the belief of his opponents was "a mere chimera" and that they were deluded by their poorly conducted experiments when error in their experiment was introduced by using the mercury contaminated by everywhere-present dust which brought the germs into the flask. He showed that when experiment repeated with flask that has the curved neck and surrounding air is not extremely turbulent, the hay alias infusion in the flask remains completely unchanged, i.e. without any mold (living micro-organisms) developed even when left so for arbitrarily long time. Pasteur declared that it remained thus because he had deprived it "of the one thing not given to Man to produce, ... of [[life]] itself" and that the doctrine of spontaneous generation suffered the mortal blow inflicted by this experiment.<ref>{{cite web
|title= On Spontaneous Generation; An address delivered by Louis Pasteur at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" of April 7, 1864
|title= On Spontaneous Generation; An address delivered by Louis Pasteur at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" of April 7, 1864
|publisher=Pasteur Brewing
|publisher=Pasteur Brewing
|url=http://www.pasteurbrewing.com/Articles/spontaneous-generation/on-spontaneous-generation.html}}</ref>
|url=http://www.pasteurbrewing.com/Articles/spontaneous-generation/on-spontaneous-generation.html}}</ref>
== External Links ==
== External links ==
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11090b.htm Jean-Antoine Nollet (Catholic Encyclopedia)]
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11090b.htm Jean-Antoine Nollet (Catholic Encyclopedia)]
== Notes ==
== Notes ==