History of Microscopes and Cell Theory

History of Lenses and Cell Theory

Period: Jan 1, 1200 to Jan 1, 2000

Invention of eyeglasses (spectacles)

Jan 1, 1285

Glasses

1st microscope invented

Jan 1, 1600

Lens on Leewenhoek

Invention of the telescope

Jan 1, 1608

Galileo's Telescope

Galileo invents his own telescope with concave and vonvex lenses

Jan 1, 1609

Lifespan of Antoni van Leewenhoek

Period: Jan 1, 1632 to Jan 1, 1723

Lifespan of Robert Hooke

Period: Jan 1, 1635 to Jan 1, 1703

The book "Micrographia" is published

Jan 1, 1665

Cells: The Functional Units of Organisms The book had sketches of the cork sells that Robert Hooke observed

First sighting of cells through a microscope

Jan 1, 1678

Cell Theory Antoni Van Leewenhoek said the he saw "little animals" while looking through a microscope around this time

Lifespan of Matthias Jakob Schleiden

Period: Jan 1, 1804 to Jan 1, 1881

Lifespan of Theodor Schwann

Period: Jan 1, 1810 to Jan 1, 1882

Lifespan of Rudolf Virchow

Period: Jan 1, 1821 to Jan 1, 1902

Theodor Schwann concluded that "all cells are made up of living things"

Jan 1, 1839

Theodor Schwann

Cells are accepted as the basic units of life

Jan 1, 1839

Animal Cell

Rudolf Virchow prosposed that 'all cells are made up of pre-exisitng cells"

Jan 1, 1858

Mitosis is dicovered by Walther Flemming

Jan 1, 1879

Cycle of Mitosis

Microscopes with lamp filters were created

Jan 1, 1880

The first electron microscope is constructed by Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska

Jan 1, 1931

The Paper Project- History of the Microscope