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[email protected]. 'EgyptiWi Secrets of a mi niature universe . 'Magazine 80uthem Illinois University Solving the microworld's mysteries By Dan McClary Francesco Redi, who demonstrated Realizing the invisible nature of the cause, rather than a product of fermen· that worms in putrefying meat were possi bl e ''seeds of microscopic life," tatian, that the early proponents of the Some JOO years ago. a minor official derived from Oy eggs, not spon John Needham ( 1745 ) and others after microbial cause of fermentation were of the town of Delft. Holland discovered taneously from invisible seeds. The im him . used healed and stoppered vessels silenced. the world of microorganisms. AntONe portant aspect of Redi 's wo rk seems to , of organic soups-or infusionS-in Again. it was Pasteur in the 1860's van Leeuwenhoek had little formal be the introduction of the controlied which they were convinced spontaneous who propounded and ultimately proved education but an insatiable curiosity biological experiment-that is , one generation of microbes was a fact. to the world that microorganisms are concerning everything within his reach provides a situation in which one ex Shortly aft e.- Needham's experiments, Indeed the cause of t he natural and a craft for making and mounting pects to observe a particula r an Italian.