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Hans & Zacharias Janssen
prouduced the first compound microscope (2 lenses) -
Robert Hooke
-looked at a thin slice of cork (oak cork) through a compound microscope
-observed tiny, hollow, roomlike structures
-called these structures 'cells' because they reminded him of the rooms that monks lived in -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
-looked at blood, rainwater, scrapings from teeth through a simple microscope (1 lens) -
Matthias Schleiden
-discovered that plant parts are made of cells -
Theodor Schwann
-discovered that animal parts are made of cells -
Rudolf Virchow
-stated that all living cells come only from other living cells
