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Louis Pasteur: His Life and Labours

Chapter 33: FOOTNOTES:
By René Vallery-Radot
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The son-in-law presents a chronological portrait of a prominent scientist, tracing childhood and formative years through landmark experimental achievements. It explains investigations into molecular asymmetry, fermentation, acetic processes, spontaneous generation, and disorders affecting wine, beer, and silkworms, then follows decisive experiments on virulent diseases culminating in development of attenuated vaccines for animal maladies and work on hydrophobia. The narrative alternates concise technical exposition with laboratory anecdotes, emphasizes methodological reasoning and experimental technique, and frames the discoveries as an accessible account of scientific method and practical applications.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] 'Vernis des maîtres.'

[2] Art. 'Vitality,' Fragments of Science, 6th edit., vol. ii. p. 50.

[3] In Faraday's induced dissymmetry the ray, having once passed through the body under magnetic influence, has its rotation doubled, instead of neutralised, as in the case of quartz, on being reflected back through the body. Marbach has discovered that chlorate of soda produces circular polarisation in all directions through the crystal, while in quartz it occurs only in the direction of the axis. Marbach also discovered facets upon his crystals, resembling those of quartz.

[4] It was late in the day when the Royal Society made him a foreign member.

[5] These words were uttered at a time when the pythogenic theory was more in favour than it is now.

[6] The work on Diseases of Silkworms was dedicated to the Empress of the French.

[7] [M. Pasteur appears to use the word devenir as a substantive in a sense equivalent to the German Werdende.]

[8] [A millimeter is 1/25th of an inch.]