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    • A Clerihew on Lazzaro Spallanzani

      Wednesday, 28 Jan 2009 - 13:53 UTC

      LAZZARO SPALLANZANI
      Probably never ate chili con carne
      He’s remembered for his elegant experimental verification
      Of the once-popular theory of preformation.

      Envoi
      Spallanzani was born on 10 January 1729 and died on 27 Feb 1799, so this year – and almost in the same month – we celebrate the 280th anniversary of his birth and the 210th of his death. Anyway, makes change from Darwin. I’m so Darwinned out that I think my head might explode.

      Last updated: Wednesday, 28 Jan 2009 - 13:53 UTC

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        • Date:
          Wednesday, 28 Jan 2009 - 14:21 UTC
          Clare Dudman said:

          Hi Henry,

          Glad to see you’re still rhyming! Just saw this and thought of you. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=john-updike-poem-1969&SID=mail&sc=emailfriend

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 28 Jan 2009 - 14:52 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Thanks Clare – it’s a fabulous scientific poem! (I’ve pasted in your link here). All the stanzas are in perfect Spenserian form (eight lines of pentameter with a ninth in hexameter), except the first, which is a seven-line Rhyme Royal. There. Just thought you ought to know that.

        • Date:
          Thursday, 29 Jan 2009 - 13:31 UTC
          Joe Dunckley said:

          and almost in the same month

          does that statement come with error bars?

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