DEVELOPMENT OF THE CELL THEORY

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  • Landing of the Mayflower

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke's microscopeRobert Hooke coins the term "cell"
  • Anton van Leeuwenhouek

    Anton van Leeuwenhouek

    Imroved the lens of Hooke's microscope to observe cells in greater detail.

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden

    Was the first to note that plants are made of cells
  • Theodore Schwann

    Theodore Schwann

    Concluded that all living things are made of cells.
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow

    Proposed that all cells come from other cells

  • Emancipation Proclamation