Fermentation.- Pasteur (Louis) "Mémoire sur les Corpuscules Organisés

Fermentation.- Pasteur (Louis) "Mémoire sur les Corpuscules Organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphere", first edition, in Annales des Sciences Naturelles partie Zoologique, 4th series, vol.16, pp.5-98, Paris, 1861 bound with vol.15, in ex-library copy with ink-stamps, library half-cloth, spine sunned, glue stain to backstrip, 8vo. *** The first complete and methodically structured exposition of Pasteur's experimental demonstration against the doctrine of spontaneous generation. Pasteur establishes that life originates from pre-existing life, and not from inert matter. This edition precedes the more widely known version published in 1862 in the Annales de chimie et de physique. Also included in this item is Édouard Lartet's "Nouvelles recherches sur la coexistence de l'homme et des grand mammifères fossiles", in vol.15. A foundational work establishing the antiquity of humankind and its coexistence with extinct fauna.

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