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Zacharias Jansen invented the first truly compound microscope
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Jan Baptist van Helmont accpeted the ideas pf spontaneous generation (making something out of nothing)
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Robert Hooke observed a cork and introduced the word "cell"
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Anton van Leeuwwenhoek discovers bacteria
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Lorenz Oken came up with a new system of animal classification and demonstrated the path of evolution
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Robert Brown published his observations reporting the discovery of widespread occurrence of nuclei on cells
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Matthias Schleiden discover plants were made of cells
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Theodor Schwann discovered that all animals are made of cells
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Albrecht von Roelliker discovered sperm and eggs are also cells
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Rudolf Virchow stated that all living things come from other living things
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Louis Pasteur disproves spontaneous generation with the process of pasteurization
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Aristotle experimented with numerous dissections
