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Zacahrias Janses
In Netherlands where a spectacle maker named Zacaharias Jensen come up with The first microscope,along with the first telescopes
The microscope became a hot item,like the IPhone -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek,he decided to make his own,strange little contraption looked like a tiny paddle,size of a sunglass lens
He used the microscope to loom everything he can,including the gunk on his teeth -
Discovers
-He discovered bacterias at dental scrapings
-When he wrote about his discovery he didn't call them bacteria,he called them animacules,because they looked like little animals -
Robert hooke
He was sending letters to a scientist in England,Robert Hooke
He dabbled a little bit of everything ink using physics and chemistry and biology
-Hooked brought us the term "cell",he was looking at a piece of cork under his microscope and the little chambers reminded him of cells or rooms monks slept in their monasteries -
Hooke with Issac Newton
Hooke made the mistake of locking horns with Sir Isaac Newton,because Hooke said Sir Isaac Newton was inspired with one of his works to make a writing about gravity and the planets -
Cell theory
German scientists helped with the cell theory,
Matthias Schleidden a botanist,who liked to study plants under a microscope,finally dawned on him that every single plant were all made of cells -
Theodor Schwann
Theodor Schwann studied animal cells and got a special type of nerve cells named after him,and invented rebreathers.
He came to the conclusion that all animals were made of cells,he told this to Schleidden,they started with the cell theory -
Schwann and the cells
Schwann thought cells come from pre-existing cells,Schleidden thought cells spontaneously crystallized into existence -
Rudolph Virchow
Rudolph Virchow stepped showing that cells did come from other cells,this information was borrowed without permission of Robert Remak a Jewish Scient