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The Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher and the Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam 1658
The Priest discovered that maggots and other creatures would be born inside dead animals and the Journalist discovered oval red -blood corpuscles he also discovered that frog embryos consist of globular particles. -
Micrographia
An article published Antoni van Leeuwen-hoek it was the first important work describing the microscopic organisms. -
The Scottish botanist Robert Brown
He was the first to realize that the nucleus was a part of every living creature that was essential to them. He also was the one that began to call it the nucleus. -
Cell Theory
The cell theory was finally officially formulated. -
the botanist Matthias Jakob Schleiden
He suggested that plants are composed of cells -
Robert Remak, Rudolf Virchow, and Albert Kölliker
these three realized that all cells must come from other cells. This would become the basis for the theory of Tissue Formation. -
A book by Karl Deiters
He published a book describing and showing nerve cells he studied these using histological methods and microdissections made with
thin needles. -
the German histologist Joseph Gerlach
Proposed that nerve cells established anastomoses with each other through a network formed by the minute branching of their dendrites. This was the beginning of the path to discovering the nervous system. -
the Swiss embryologist Wilhelm His
Put forth that the nerve cell and its prolongations form an independent unit. -
Neurons
The term Neurons is introduced to describe independent nerve cells.