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Robert Hooke
Hooke publishes his book, Micrographia, which contains his drawings of sections of cork as seen through one of the first microscopes. -
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The History of the Cell
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He observes ting living organisms in drops of pond water thourgh his simple microscope. -
Matthias Schleiden
He concluded that all plants are made up of cells. -
Theodor Schwann
He concludes that all animals are made up of cells. -
Rudolph Virchow
He proposes that all cells come from existing cells, completing the cell theory. -
Lynn Margulis
She proposes the ideas that certain organelles, tiny structures within some cells, were once free-living cells themselves.
