John Turberville Needham
1713-1781
English Naturalist
The English naturalist John Needham conducted a series of experiments that seemed to provide proof of spontaneous generation—the sudden app...
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John Turberville Needham dedicated himself to the Roman Catholic religion and was ordained in 1738. Much of his life thereafter, however, was devoted to the natural sciences. Stimulated by his reading...
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John Turberville Needham
John Turberville Needham