Bio

  • 460 BCE

    Democitis

    He figured out that every thing was made out of matter
  • 64

    Seneca

    He filled a glass with water and figured out that things looked different
  • 127

    Claudius Ptolemy

    He figured out that you could magnify things with curved glass
  • Jan 1, 1485

    Leonardo da Vinci

    He said how he used small lenses to look at very small objects
  • Hans and Zacharias Jansen

    They put 2 convex lenses into a tube to make a compact microscope
  • First time seeing cells

    Robert Hooke saw cells for the first time with cork
  • The word cell was made

    After Robert Hooke discovered cells he named them cells
  • Francesco Redi

    Disproved the phenomenon of spontaneous generation
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Discovered Bacteria
  • Caspar Wolff

    He proposed that all organs and animal embryos were made out of globules which can be seen under a microscope
  • Felice Fontana

    He discovered nucleolus after finding it on the slime of an eel
  • Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

    He said that cellular tissue is the general matrix of all organisms