| Spallanzani
embarked on painstaking and exhaustive experiments.
The results were so strange to him that they challenged
his credulity. They contradicted common sense
and reasonableness. But he was a good scientist,
and in the end he accepted the empirical evidence
of his many, thorough experiments. |
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| First
he made little hoods for the bats. The hoods really
impeded the bats, and they bumped into things
a lot. |
| But how
specifically, thought Spallanzani, had
the hoods prevented the bats from functioning
normally? |
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