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350 BCE
Aristotle
aristotle realized that to reproduce their are multiple stages of life
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/aristotle-384-322-bce#:~:text=Through%20his%20study%20of%20chick,a%20theory%20later%20called%20epigenesis. -
Period: 300 BCE to
Cell Theory
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Jan Baptiste van Helmont
Thought of the early theory of photosynthesis
https://prezi.com/2jgbwwgjdehc/cell-theory-and-discovery-of-the-microscope/#:~:text=Jean%20Baptiste%20van%20Helmont%20contributed,important%20early%20contribution%20to%20photosynthesis.&text=This%20helped%20him%20to%20prove,soil%20was%20a%20wrong%20statement. -
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Invented the first single lense microscope. https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/scientific-method4.htm -
Robert Hooke
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Matthias Jakob Schleiden
He worked with plant samples and figured out that all plants were composed of cells
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/scientific-method4.htm -
Robert Brown
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Theodor Schwann
Followed up Schleiden's idea but with animal samples
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/scientific-method4.htm -
Rudolf Virchow
He discoved that all cells came from preexisting cells
https://www.britannica.com/science/cell-theory -
Albert von Roelliker
He discoved the cellurlar structure of tissue
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-Albert-von-Kolliker -
Louis Pasteur
He provided the final expieriment that proved that spontanious generation is not real and he invented pasturization so that we can stop food from going bad for a lot longer
https://www.preceden.com/timelines/183224-the-cell-theory#:~:text=Louis%20Pasteur%20contributed%20to%20the,broth%20if%20air%20was%20exposed. -
Zacharias Janssen
Invented the first compound microscope
https://www.sutori.com/story/our-cell-theory-timeline--ysqPf9CgJguMXPyQDfDXsv2g