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Period: Sep 30, 1543 to
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
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Robert Hooke Describes Cells
In 1665, an Englishman named Robert Hooke (1635-1703) published Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses coining the word “cell” for the first time in relation to biology in his description of magnified cork shavings. About what he saw, he wrote “… it was not unlike Honey-comb…in that these pores, or cells, were not very deep, but consisted of a great many little boxes..." These were not live cells but the remains of the plant cell walls. -
Charles Darwin Begins his Voyage on the HMS Beagle
The voyage lasted almost 5 years, ending on October 2, 1836. -
Matthias Schleiden
He wrote that all plant cells are made of multiple cells and originate from single cells. He suggested that cells are the basic building block of all plant matter. -
Rudolf Virchow
Published “omnis cellula e cellula” (all cells from cells) in 1858. The observations of Matthias Schleiden, Theodor Schwann, and Virchow become the basis of "Cell Theory." The theory states that cells are the basic unit of life, and all living things are composed of cells derived from previous cells, or that life does not appear by spontaneous generation. -
No more tigers in the wild
By the year 2030 there will be no more wild Tigers. They will all be either kept in zoos or somehow domesticated.
