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The Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher and the Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam made a discover
The jesuit priest made a discovery that maggots/other living organisims devolped decaying tissues and the dutch naturalists had discovered that a frog embryo consists of globular praticles. This is important because their findings would be the first step to figuring out what cells are. -
Hooke published Micrographia
Micrographia was the 1st important book that was focused on microscopical observations, showed what microscopes could mean for naturalists, and the term "cells" was offical used being coined by Hooke and refering to the microsopic units found. This is important beacuse the book talks about how microscopes can benifit naturalists, gives us the term Cells and boosts microscopical observations. -
Dutchman, Antoni van Leeuwennoek sent a letter to the royal society
He wrote in the letter that the particles he saw under his microscope were motile and assumed that motility equals life and classifyed the particles as living organisms. This is important because the dutchman is pointing out that those particles are living because they are motile and by contacting the royal society, they would've began to observe more particles which gets us closer the the cell theory becoming a thing starting with all living thing have cells. -
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The Scottish Botanist Robert Brown had discovered the nucleus
He was the 1st person to reconized the nucleus (a term that he introduced) as an essential constituent of living things. This is important because we are introduced to the term nucleus and that it is an essential for living things just like cells are -
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A botanist Matthias Jakob Schleiden made a suggestion about plant sturctues and cells
He suggested that every structural element of plants is composed of cells or their products. This is important because it shows that every litral living thing is made out of cells, not just humans but plants and animals too. -
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Robert Remak and 2 others made a discovery about cells
Robert Remak, Rudolf Virchow, and Albert Kolliker showed evidence that showed cells where formed through pre-existing cells. This is important because the evidence is the main point within the cell theory that all cells come from pre-existing cells. -
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German histologist Joseph Gerlach
He expanded Kolliker's view and proposed that in all the central nervous system, nerve cells established anastomoses with each other. This is important because we learn more about the central nervous system and how nerve cells interact with each other. -
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Karl Deiters
A book was written by him and it contained beautiful descriptions and drawings of nerve cells, that was studied by using histological methods. This is important because we get to study what nerve cells are and what nerve cells look like. -
Golgi developed the "Black Reaction"
Once Golgi developed the black reaction he annouced that he was delighted at what he had found between the neurons; also the nervous system was found to be made up of independeet units, which gave the cell theory it's final triumph.This is important because the black reaction was the final strike to give the cell theory life. -
Waldeyer introduced the term "neurons"
He introduced the term Neurons that indicted independent nerve cells, and thereafter cell theory as applied to the nervous system which became known as the neuron theory. This is important because we are giving a new theory to look into to help us all better understand neurons, cells and the nervous system.