The concept
of linear time shapes the notion of the origin of life in Modernity. Aristotle, who represents the philosophical thinking of Western culture, created this idea of time in relation to movement. From this point of view, time is the change of state from inactivity to activity. This perception of movement shapes the paradigm of selleck linear temporality; therefore, it creates the need for an origin. This perspective of time is the framework of reality in which the concept of the beginning of time is immersed. Taking this paradigm into account, we analyze the work and the ideology of Francesco Redi, who was the first person to seriously question the idea of spontaneous generation. However, the cultural environment of the epoch in which he lived nourished Fedratinib his beliefs about origins. Redi’s experiments marked the context in which nature was viewed, especially in regard to the studies of the origin of life. Aristotle (1999). Aristotle in Twenty-three Volumes. Heinmannn, London. Bacon, F. (2004). Novum Organum. Losada, Buenos Aires. Cecil, W. (1972). A History of Science and its relation to Philosophy and Religin. Cambridge University Press, MA. Descartes, R. (1979). Discurso del Mtodo. Alianza, Madrid. Gribbin, J. (2002). Historia
de la Ciencia (1543–2001). Critica, Barcelona. Heidegger, M. (1971). El Ser y el Tiempo. Fondo de Cultura Econmica, Mxico. Olive, L. (2000). El Bien, el Mal y la Razn. Paidos, Mxico. Platn (2003). Dilogos. Porrua, Mxico. Reale, G. and Antiseri, D. (1983). Historia del Pensamiento Filosfico y Cientfico. Herder, Espaa. E-mail: negron@nucleares.unam.mx and ninelvn@gmail Edmund Perrier (1844–1921), A French Naturalist Who Discussed the Idea of Chemical Evolution as Early as 1920 Florence Raulin Cerceau Centre Alexandre Koyré (CNRS-EHESS-MNHN-CSI-UMR 8560) Musee national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris—France Key Words: Edmund Perrier—Chemical Evolution—Origins of Life—History of Sciences Edmund Perrier was a zoologist and an anatomist who became Director of the National Museum of Natural History GPX6 of Paris-France
from 1900 to 1919. He was a specialist of the benthic fauna and also a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He contributed to popularize many zoological notions concerning anatomy, transformism, and submarine exploration. Interested in the idea of biological evolution, he was however more a supporter of Lamarck’s transformism, than a strong defender of Darwin’s theory. One of his major contributions deals with the study of the Earth before the evolution of life. This book, entitled La Terre avant l’Histoire. Les Origines de la Vie et de l’Homme, was published in 1920 while the studies on the biochemical components of the living beings were rapidly developing (Paris, La Renaissance du Livre).