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Robert Hooke
-Looked at a cork under a microscope and saw tiny rooms.
- He called them cells because they reminded him of the rooms that monks lived in.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
-He lloked at rain water, blood, and teeth scrapings under a microscope.
-Saw living cells.
- He called them animalcules but is now called bacteria. -
Matthias Schleiden
-He veiwed plant parts under a microscope.
-Dicovered that plant parts are made of cells.
- German botanist. -
Theodor Schwann
- German zoologist. -He viewed animal parts under a microscope. -He discovered animals made of cells.
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Rudolph Virchow
-He stated that all living cells only come from other living cells.
-He was a German physician.