Biology Timeline.

  • Oct 29, 1500

    Spontaneous Generation.

    Caused people to question where living things come from
  • First Microscope

    Helped us study things we couldn't see with the naked eye
  • Robert Hooke.

    Saw the first cell
  • Francesco Redi.

    First person to question spontaneous generation
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Revised the microscope to study smaller things closer
  • Lazzaro Spallanzani

    Was the next person to conduct a famous experiment to prove the theory of spontaneous generation wrong
  • First Organelle Seen

    It was a componet in creating the cell theory
  • Matthias Schleiden

    was a partner to Schwann and recorded all of his research then published it into a book
  • Cell Theory

    It stated what living things come from
  • Theodor Schwann

    Published a book that contained his observation of cells.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Person to create the S-shaped flask and once and for all proved the theory of spontaneous generation to be false
  • First Modern Light Microscope

    Allowed us to use light while studying specimen
  • Electron Microscope

    Invented to increase magnification to study cells closer