 This work marked the beginning of experimental toxinology/toxicology.Redi is best known for his series of experiments, published in 1668 as "Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione degli Insetti" ("Experiments on the Generation of Insects"), which is regarded as his masterpiece and a milestone in the history of modern science.The book is one of the first steps in refuting "spontaneous generation"—a theory also known as Aristotelian abiogenesis.