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Francesco Redi. In 1668, Francesco Redi published the first set of experiments challenging spontaneous generation. In these experiments, he demonstrated that maggots arise from the eggs of flies rather than directly from rotting meat. He did so by taking several jars and placing raw meat inside of them.
Galileo's support for the heliocentric theory (note that this is Copernicus's theory, not Galileo's) got him into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church. In 1633 the Inquisiti â¦ on convicted him of heresy and forced him to recant (publicly withdraw) his support of Copernicus.e was an Italian scientist of the 17th century. He did not prove  the heliocentric theory. But everyone accepts the heliocentric  principle now, after it was proved right; â¦ but that happened long  after Galileo's time, after new scientific discoveries in the  latter half of the 1600s. Geoff Canyon.