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Lazzaro Spallanzani. L'esploratore dei confini della vita

19 February 2013. 
P Mazzarello, Universita’ di Pavia and U Muscatello, Universita’ di Modena. 

A critical tribute to the scientific legacy of L Spallanzani by a historian of science (PM) and a pathologist (UM) who has played a key role in the publication of the national edition of the works of the great Italian naturalist. The speakers illustrated the persoanility, the research methodology and the major scientific contributions of Spallanzani, which offered tremendous insights into the natural world spanning from the study of rocks to that of reproduction, digestion, etc. They also uncovered some of his less known research, for example on respiration, which later attracted tremendous recognition by scientists of the calibre of Louis Pasteur.