Tirard Stéphane
Centre François Viète d'épistémologie et d'histoire des sciences, Faculté des sciences et des techniques, Université de Nantes - 2, rue de la Houssinière, 44000 Nantes.
Hist Sci Med. 2009 Jan-Mar;43(1):67-72.
At the beginning of the XXth century, Stéphane Leduc (1853-1939), physician and biologist in Nantes (France), believed that he created a new discipline: the synthetic biology. Using his own works on diffusion and osmotic growths, he considered that the structures obtained by him were very closed to living beings. In 1907, his conclusions were strongly criticized and his papers were refused by the Académie des Sciences de Paris, because they questioned spontaneous generations. This paper relates Leduc's experimental works and conclusions and as well analyses his analogical method.
在20世纪初，法国南特的医生兼生物学家斯特凡·勒迪克（1853 - 1939）认为自己创立了一门新学科：合成生物学。基于他自己关于扩散和渗透生长的研究成果，他认为自己所获得的结构与生物非常相似。1907年，他的结论遭到了强烈批评，他的论文也被巴黎科学院拒绝，因为这些论文质疑了自然发生说。本文讲述了勒迪克的实验工作和结论，并分析了他的类比方法。
