I don’t know for sure about Pasteur (not my specialty) but from reading some primary sources from around the end of the spontaneous generation debate (Tyndall I think, can’t quite remember!) I was struck by how much effort it took. I think it was just a lot harder to get from “first idea” to “compelling empirical results” than might immediately be clear!
I don’t know for sure about Pasteur (not my specialty) but from reading some primary sources from around the end of the spontaneous generation debate (Tyndall I think, can’t quite remember!) I was struck by how much effort it took. I think it was just a lot harder to get from “first idea” to “compelling empirical results” than might immediately be clear!